Course Modules

This module interrogates the changing theoretical models and perspectives of the period that is often categorised as ‘modernist’. You will explore, examine and debate the historical, social, cultural and theoretical influence of modernism, its challenge to traditional structures, forms and […]

This module serves as foundation training for developing technical skills in voice, movement and devising for the modern theatre performer. As such it draws from a broad area of interdisciplinary practice and aims to introduce and develop basic proficiency in

This module follows and expands the work studied in Performance Skills the broad perspective in the first module will be explored more rigorously while emphasising the links between other practical modules.

This module introduces you to different modes of connecting conceptual ideas of the body with practical modes of creating visual and physical performance work. You will engage in analysis and practical exploration of the compositional challenges to dramatic conventions within

This module introduces you to practices and approaches to making text-based devised theatre. The module also serves as an introduction to theories and practices of ‘deconstruction’: to identify and investigate deconstructive processes used by contemporary theatre practitioners, companies and thinkers,

This module explores a variety of stimuli for performance-based devised theatre products, with a particular emphasis on narrative. It aims to investigate different approaches to devised story-telling theatre and identify specific crafting devices and methodologies to develop work.

This module encourages you to consider the possible relationships of performance to everyday experience, society and political/historical contexts. Through the analysis of a range of site-specific practices, you will explore geographic, architectural and philosophical approaches to the creation of site-specific

This module introduces you to a number of examples of innovative contemporary theatre work for children and young audiences in the UK. You will produce your own short (20 to 30 minute) work for children, ensuring that a dialogic relationship

In this module, you will explore a specialist field of physical theatre and performance. You will examine its historical roots in Commedia dell’Arte, through into a study of the contemporary practice and art of the theatre clown. You will consider

This module explores the importance of revolution, the sublime, the gothic, landscape and imagination as motive forces in the making of art and culture. By examining the notion that Classicism and Romanticism are opposites, as the reaction of many 19th