MA in Performance Research
The MA in Performance Research offers you opportunities to further your interest in a range of critical, conceptual and practical issues surrounding performance, as part of a lively and growing cohort of postgraduate students working across performance and screen media both critically and practically. The Department houses the Theatre Collections, which is one of the foremost archives for theatre-related materials in the country. Amongst many key holdings are the recently acquired Live Art Archives.
The programme covers historical and contemporary contexts of production, circulation and reception of performance texts as well as a broad range of key practitioners and practices, authors and theorists. A core unit will develop your knowledge and understanding of critical and theoretical approaches to performance and performance research issues. A range of options allows you to pursue a pathway of study appropriate to your interests and prior experience. It is a distinctive feature of this MA that it allows you opportunities also to work across media, with units offered from a range of performance and screen studies perspectives. The programme culminates in a dissertation, which may contain elements of performance practice.
Course structure:
Mandatory Unit
- Research Methods and Questions in Performance (Teaching Block 1)
Optional Units
- Critical Theory
- Performance Action/Direction
- Performance Place/Space
- Performing the Body
- Performing Theatre History
- Scenography
- Screen Histories
- Screening Nations
- Other units across the Faculty