Dramaturgy MA

Birkbeck, University of London

MA Dramaturgy offers a comprehensive exploration of the practice and theory of drama, theatre and performance composition. You will work practically with a host of leading artists, who will share their diverse approaches to creating performance, from collaborative theatre-making to live art. You will engage in scholarly examination of practices, histories and theories regarding the research and development of drama, theatre and performance works inside and outside the rehearsal room. Further enhancing your practice-based and scholarly skills and knowledge, you will originate a playwriting project, and engage in an industry-led examination of audience development, arts education and producing.

MA Dramaturgy is unique in approaching dramaturgy from multiple standpoints: practical, theoretical and institutional. This course will prepare you to enter the world of theatre-making with specialist theoretical and practical knowledge, and an informed overview of the creative process and its components. If you love to make, facilitate, think and write about theatre, but do not wish to be in the spotlight as a performer yourself, MA Dramaturgy is ideal.

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY

Graduates can pursue career paths in theatre and other performance arts and in publishing. Possible professions include:

theatre director

artistic director

associate director

opera director

theatre producer

literary manager

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