Methodologies of rehearsal; new performance writing; innovation in text-based performance practice; children’s theatre; Shakespeare; opera and music theatre.
John Ginman BA

Performance praxis (theories of acting, history of acting and directing, systems of actor training); Restoration and modern English comedy; post-war British theatre; South African theatre; the British and American musical.
Professor Robert Gordon BA MA LTCL FRSA

Irish theatre; the work of J M Synge, W B Yeats and Sean O’Casey; theatre history; theatre and cultural history; politics and nationalism; Irish political history; modernism.
Dr Ben Levitas BA MA DPhil

Theatre and fascism; sport theatre; public spectacle and fascism; 20th-century Catalan, Spanish, French, German and Italian theatre.
Dr John London BA MA PhD

African theatre; Caribbean theatre; postcolonial theatre; theatre-fordevelopment; intercultural/cross-cultural issues in performance.
Dr Osita Okagbue BA MA PhD

Contemporary Black British writing; prison theatre and drama; motherhood and colonial ideology; New Women writers; Australian indigenous writing and performance; women secret agents and war.
Dr Deirdre Osborne PhD

Archetype and archetypal psychology, especially dreams; physical theatre practice and training; Grotowski, Barba, Lecoq: commedia dell’arte, ancient pantomime.
Göze Saner BA

20th-century directors and mise-en-scène, including Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Giorgio Strehler and Robert Wilson; French and Russian theatre including Lev Dodin and the Maly; sociology of the theatre; interdisciplinary methodologies; theatre theory, performance and cultural theory; performance analysis; audience analysis; dance; opera.
Professor Maria Shevtsova BA M-ès-L DipEd PhD