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.
Comedy and satire play a vital role in commenting on, and critiquing, the world around us.
This degree will help you become a resourceful and well-informed performer, theatre-maker, administrator or teacher in the musical theatre industry.
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.
Degree listing
Develop your ability to contextualise, critique, and create. This MA addresses the historical, political, theoretical and ethical issues of applied theatre, and explores the ways in which theatre and performance are created by diverse groups of people.
This ground-breaking course is timely and necessary, taking black British writing seriously as a discipline.
This programme develops the business and entrepreneurial skills and attributes you’ll need to commercialise on your creative and cultural practices and/or knowledge.
A unique programme for dramaturges and playwrights, this programme concentrates on the process of writing for live performance, together with an ongoing evaluation of the work in process.
This unique Masters will enhance your critical understanding of musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre.
This pioneering Masters 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.
This programme is one of the few taught Masters programmes of its kind in the world. Covering historical and philosophical bases of theatre and performance practices from different parts of the world, this degree investigates indigenous and contemporary performance and theatre traditions from a variety of cultural contexts.
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.
