Advanced Theatre Practice, MA
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-25
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
About the course
As a student on the MA or MFA Advanced Theatre Practice at Central, you can expect to:
- Practice and study theatre directing, performing or scenography in a collaborative environment
- Engage in an experimental laboratory fuelled by theory and research
- Create new work for a range of course-centred and public encounters
- Play a leading role in tomorrow’s performance and theatre making worlds.
Benefits of the programme
- Engage in the skills and practices of the contemporary disciplines of directing, performing or scenography in new and unexpected ways within a supportive atmosphere of discovery and innovation
- Develop creatively through our interdisciplinary theatre-making laboratory, learning skills, exploring processes and experimenting with techniques.
- Inspired by the current wave of experimental directors, explore the distinct roles of director or performer working with text in contemporary theatre
- Choose from a range of options that embrace the latest in theatre and performance making practices, including new technologies, digital media and virtual techniques, puppetry and object theatre in contemporary theatre
- Have opportunities to take work made on the course to festivals and events outside the School, for example, Camden People’s Theatre, Istropolitana Project (Slovakia), Zlomvaz Festival (Prague), Marathon Festival (Jerusalem), Bialystok Festival (Poland), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Prague Quadrennial
- Join a network of distinguished alumni, including winners of Olivier, Total Theatre, Irish Times, Deutsche Bank, Rolex Mentor and Protegee, JMK, Allen Wright, Linbury and Evening Standard Theatre Awards, changing the way we work and think about theatre
- Develop experience from extensive workshops with leading professionals, learning to research and extend your own practice, launch a company, make new work, and, on the MA, finally take this to an audience beyond Central.
- Have excellent opportunities, if undertaking the MFA, to work for an extended period on practice and research and attachments with cutting-edge external artists and/or companies.
- You will be part of a carefully selected group who wish to pool your resources and imagine the theatre of the future.
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£ 24,150per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
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Campus address
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, Embassy Theatre, Eton Avenue, Camden, NW3 3HY, England
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
17th out of 95 1
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Entry standards
/ Max 198143 72%24th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10063.0 63%23rd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 42.75 69%92nd
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