Our degree programmes
Degree listing
This degree reflects the diversity and excitement of the subject in the new millennium, and gives you the opportunity to study the theory and practice of theatre and performance in a range of media.
This innovative programme is for students wishing to pursue a career as a comic writer and/or comedy performer.
This degree explores the practice of theatre and performance in community and educational settings, for social, political and personal change.
What happens to a text when it’s performed? This degree combines the study of English literature and theatre to help you understand, and interrogate, the relationship between text and performance.
- English and Comparative Literature
Studying musical theatre in London offers wonderful opportunities
Degree listing
This MA addresses the historical, political, theoretical and ethical issues of applied theatre and develops your ability to contextualise, critique and create.
This ground-breaking course is timely and necessary, taking Black British writing seriously as a discipline.
This programme allows you to develop the business/entrepreneurial skills and attributes to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.
- Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship
A unique programme for dramaturges and playwrights.
This unique MA will enhance your critical understanding of the musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre.
This pioneering MA offers interdisciplinary perspectives on international performance, and aims to understand performance in relation to the culture to which it contributes.
This unique international laboratory programme brings diverse individuals into collaborative research, acknowledging the challenges of creating original, performer-driven theatre in today's complex, globalised culture.
Covering historical and philosophical bases of theatre and performance practices from different parts of the world, on this degree you'll investigate indigenous and contemporary performance and theatre traditions from a variety of cultural contexts. The MA World Theatres is one of the few freestanding taught Masters programmes in world theatres and performance in the UK and globally.
The Department of Theatre and Performance's research embraces a range of global theory and practice in theatre and performance including play-texts, physical practices and critical/cultural theory on which students can draw in their research.
Study abroad
The Department of Theatre and Performance offers an Erasmus scheme which enables you to live in a European city for part of your degree. View all Click here and for more information about the Erasmus Scheme, please contact the T&P International Liaison Office: Clare Finburgh C.Finburgh@gold.ac.uk.
