MA Theatre

Program Overview

The MA Theatre program combines practice-based inquiry and scholarly study, preparing students for careers in the creative industries. Through collaborative projects and expert instruction, students develop their skills as theatre makers and producers, exploring a wide range of topics and gaining practical experience. The program culminates in a major project, allowing students to showcase their work and demonstrate their readiness for professional roles.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Objectives:

• The MA Theatre program is an actively interdisciplinary program designed to combine practice-based enquiry and scholarly study.
• Taught by expert staff with a broad range of industry specialisms, the program allows students to work collaboratively to create innovative practice and performance pieces.
• The program aims to prepare students for careers in the creative industries by providing opportunities to undertake placements, gain work experience, and/or participate in prestigious research projects.

Description:

• The MA Theatre degree is concerned with honing individual development as students transition from undergraduate to postgraduate level, developing your expertise and experience as a theatre maker and producer.
• The program encourages creative collaboration between postgraduate students across the School of Design and Creative Arts, enabling them to produce dynamic and innovative performance and theatre together.
Alternatively, you can select to devise and perform a solo project, or write a traditional dissertation.

Outline:

Semester 1:

• Compulsory modules:
• Research Methods for Theatre
• Translating Theory into Practice
• Digital Storytelling for Creative Practice
• Optional modules (choose one):
• Arts Management
• Performative Writing

Semester 2:

• Compulsory modules:
• Interdisciplinary Project
• Optional modules (choose two):
• Developing Professional Practice for Theatre
• Thinking about Storytelling
• Place-based Theatre and Storytelling

Summer:

• Compulsory modules (choose one):
• Dissertation
• Major Project

Assessment:

• The MA Theatre program uses a mixed-methods approach to assessment, including practical assessments, presentations, and essays.

Teaching:

• The MA Theatre program features a variety of teaching and learning methods, including:
• Seminars
• Independent study
• Group work
• Practical sessions

Careers:

• The program equips students with the skills and knowledge necessary for careers in the creative industries, such as:
• Theatre
• Film
• PR
• Media (including broadcasting)
• Higher education
• Marketing
• Web design
• Events management
• Communications
• Graduates from the program have pursued careers in a variety of roles, including:
• Actor
• Writer
• Creative director
• Digital content producer
• Educator in NGOs and museums
• Events/arts management
• Arts administrator
• Teacher

Other:

• The program is designed to give students the opportunity to apply their individual and subject-specific learning to the design, delivery, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary, community-based/industry-led project.
• The program aims to support students in developing their collaborative skills, their individual skills and disciplinary experience as creative practitioners, and their understanding of the challenges and opportunities of working with both academic and non-academic partners on projects.
• The program will also give students an opportunity to develop their skills in self-evaluation and as reflective practitioners.
• Students will therefore have the opportunity to either work together to produce a piece of performance in the format of a theatre company or to create their own piece of devised performance.
• In either case, the students will manage and develop every aspect of performance themselves and the final performance should be of professional standard.
The student will also produce an accompanying written commentary.

UK fee: £12,250 Full-time degree per annum International fee: £24,500 Full-time degree per annum