Applied Theatre

The MA in Applied Theatre is a practice focused course exploring how socially-turned performance can be enacted for social justice. If you want to use performance for social action, education, or cultural intervention, this course offers the critical, social and creative tools to do so. The MA Applied Theatre is for those who are excited by the potential of performance to address social change in the areas of race, class, gender, economy, migration, health and ecology.

The programme will:

Develop your practices and ethics in socially-engaged performance contexts Give you the opportunity to facilitate and create live projects in non-theatre environments with diverse communities. Expand your understanding of social performance through workshops with experts in the field. Prepare you to plan, deliver and evaluate your own projects and, to deepen your critical understanding of the social contexts and cultural politics of your work. The programme will enable you to become an interdisciplinary facilitator working with communities for social justice. You will develop and consider your role as a cultural worker between communities and institutions through modules based on interdisciplinary projects, cultural politics, community and facilitation.

Your position as creator and cultural worker makes this programme unique to applied theatre in establishing you as a maker of performance that acts critically and literally in a world that is connected within networks of care and solidarity.

Taught in the evenings, the MA in Applied Theatre is a one year postgraduate degree with an MFA as a second-year option.