As a student on the MA or MFA Advanced Theatre Practice at Central, you can expect to:
- Practice and study theatre directing, performing or scenography in a collaborative environment
- Engage in an experimental laboratory fuelled by theory and research
- Create new work for a range of course-centred and public encounters
- Play a leading role in tomorrow’s performance and theatre making worlds.
Benefits of the programme
- Engage in the skills and practices of the contemporary disciplines of directing, performing or scenography in new and unexpected ways within a supportive atmosphere of discovery and innovation
- Develop creatively through our interdisciplinary theatre-making laboratory, learning skills, exploring processes and experimenting with techniques.
- Inspired by the current wave of experimental directors, explore the distinct roles of director or performer working with text in contemporary theatre
- Choose from a range of options that embrace the latest in theatre and performance making practices, including new technologies, digital media and virtual techniques, puppetry and object theatre in contemporary theatre
- Have opportunities to take work made on the course to festivals and events outside the School, for example, Camden People’s Theatre, Istropolitana Projekt (Slovakia), Zlomvaz Festival (Prague), Marathon Festival (Jerusalem), Bialystok Festival (Poland), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Prague Quadrennial
- Join a network of distinguished alumni, including winners of Olivier, Total Theatre, Irish Times, Deutsche Bank, Rolex Mentor and Protégée, JMK, Allen Wright, Linbury and Evening Standard Theatre Awards, changing the way we work and think about theatre
- Develop experience from extensive workshops with leading professionals, learning to research and extend your own practice, launch a company, make new work, and, on the MA, finally take this to an audience beyond Central.
- Have excellent opportunities, if undertaking the MFA, to work for an extended period on practice and research and attachments with cutting-edge external artists and/or companies.
- You will be part of a carefully selected group who wish to pool your resources and imagine the theatre of the future.
Cutting edge practice and thinking is the norm at Central. Exciting research activity ongoing in this area and led by Dr Duska Radosavljevic can be found here.
