Theatre Studies [MLitt]

The programme is mostly comprised of optional courses, enabling you to create your own Masters programme. It also allows you to work in an interdisciplinary capacity, selecting courses from across the College of Arts, according to personal interests. The programme convenor will work with you to ensure a sensible portfolio of courses is constructed, according to your personal aims and objectives.

Core teaching is delivered in two semesters, followed by an independent desk- or practice-based project. The Independent Research Project provides an opportunity for you to identify an area of interest and to create a research project that allows in-depth critical exploration of this.

• Research Methods
• Independent Research Project.

You will undertake five optional courses which you will select from a pool of courses. Optional courses are updated each year, but may include:

• Applied Theatre
• Arts Criticism
• Contemporary Devising Practices
• Debating Dramaturgy
• Directing
• Documentary Drama
• Exhibiting Cultures
• Festivals
• Interwar cultures
• Performance Theory and Analysis
• Playwriting
• Shakesperean Adaptations
• Space, Place and Performance
• Theatre Archive Placement
• Work placement

By the end of this programme you will have developed knowledge of a range of issues pertinent to the study of theatre, including historical, contemporary, theoretical and practical. This programme will allow you to develop a wide range of subject knowledge combined with confidence in utilising different research methodologies.