Welcome to the Department of Theatre and Performance
We educate tomorrow’s Theatre and Performance professionals. TaP graduates are broad-minded, informed and articulate, possessed with a range of intellectual, creative and life skills to take into the future. They find jobs across the industry whilst many also pursue successful freelance careers. Recent graduates have won prestigious awards as playwrights, directors, creators of new work and cultural leaders in the UK and internationally.
We are internationally recognised as one of the finest centres for study and research with a reputation for being innovative, intercultural and interdisciplinary. In RAE2008 65% of our research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent. We thrive on the breadth of our staff specialisms as well as on our strong links with leading professionals, many of whom contribute to our teaching and learning environment. We also tap into our relationship with professional companies, venues, organisations and agencies across the globe.
Our research-led curriculum is designed to cultivate curiosity, experimentation and independence. We teach learners to learn. We guide our students to discover which ideas and practices interest them and challenge them to develop these to a high level of competence. Working within the unique environment of Goldsmiths encourages students to understand their own specialism as contributing to broader social, creative and cultural enquiry.
Our postgraduate culture is dynamic and international. We attract students from all over the world and many of our postgraduates are engaged in practice-led PhD research.
We want our graduates to leave us equipped with the imagination, ability and confidence to make a difference by making things happen, from concept to execution. Many alumni have formed their own companies and projects and gone on to take these into professionally funded operations.
We currently have 190 undergraduates, 44 Study Abroad undergraduates, 100 Masters students and 26 Doctoral students enrolled across our programmes.
Theatre and Performance programmes:
- BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Arts
- MA in Applied Drama: Theatre in Educational, Community & Social Contexts
- MA in Black British Writing, Drama and Performance
- MA in Contemporary African Theatre & Performance
- MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship: Theatre & Performance Pathway
- MA in Musical Theatre
- MA in Performance & Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- MA in Performance Making
- MA in Writing for Performance
- MPhil & PhD in Drama
Latest from Theatre and Performance
Our new name: We are delighted to announce that the Department of Drama will now be known as the Department of Theatre and Performance.
Performance Research Forum Dis-Play [17] schedule
Talk: Dr Anna Furse will give a talk at the Adult Love and Its Roots in Infancy Day Conference at the Anna Freud Centre on the 3rd of December titled When I touch the keys my flesh melts: On writing Don Juan.Who?. For more info follow the link.
Performance: Students on the MA in Applied Drama have been commissioned by Platforma, the national arts and refugee network, to create performances for their conference on December 2nd & 3rd, at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green. The four pieces, responding to notions of labelling, territory, labelling and identity, will punctuate the conference on Friday and Saturday. For more information follow the link.
Publication: Daniel Marshall, a current 3rd year BA Drama and Theatre Arts student has had an article on unlocking creative potential for young theatre practitioners published in the Guardian and in A Younger Theatre. To read more please follow these links: Guardian article - A Younger Theatre article. Daniel will be on the panel of a live discussion on internships in the arts for the Guardian Culture professionals Network this Friday, 2nd December, 12-2pm. To follow the live chat go to the Guardian website.
Award: Tania El Khoury, who graduated from the MA in Performance Making in 2009 has won the Total Theatre Award for Innovation and the Arches Brick Award at this year's Edinburgh Festival for her groundbreaking, and at times controversial show, Maybe if you choreograph me, you will feel better.
Upcoming Events
Friday 17 February- The Politics of Practice - An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
- The Politics of Practice - An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
Vanessa, BA Drama & Theatre Arts