Course Modules

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

This module relates theories of postmodernism to contemporary arts practice. It begins by considering postmodernism’s relationships to both romanticism and modernism, exploring ‘definitions’ of postmodernism and illustrating postmodern features in a range of arts practices. A selection of postmodern term

This module examines the role of drama in educational contexts and applies devised theatre concepts, facilitation skills and pedagogical considerations in the design and development of educational theatre, workshops and performance.

This module will develop your critical understanding and creative engagement with how notions of gender and sexuality inform approaches to the creation and analysis of theatre and performance. It aims to examine a variety of artistic approaches to the politicisation

This module provides you with extensive performance and production experience, as you explore the devising process rooted in character narrative, specifically in relation to dance theatre. You will be given insight into the way that characters can define (and hinder)