With your postgraduate degree in collaborative theatre practice, we will guide you to authentic and meaningful opportunities for developing your creative collaboration in various theatrical contexts. Our innovative MA, created in response to sector needs and aimed at highly motivated graduates, provides the ideal opportunity for you to improve and strengthen your collaborative working within the theatre practice. The course requires you to plan, develop, and create your own theatre companies, emphasizing the importance of classical and contemporary texts from page to stage.
University of Staffordshire
Collaborative Theatre practice MA
Entry Requirements
Honours degree of 2:1 or above, or relevant professional experience, in a related area. Entry to the programme is open to both National and International Drama and Theatre graduates with a proven aptitude and ability in their specialist area i.e., as directors, dramaturgs, scenographers, technicians and/or stage and production managers cut or to actors and directors who wish to broaden their knowledge and experience.
It may also be of interest to actors who want to extend their knowledge, understanding and experience of collaborative theatre making processes for text-based theatre.
Career Prospects
After completing the Collaborative Theatre Practice MA, you’ll be equipped with transferable skills attractive to employers. These can be adapted to a range of professions including many embraced by the Creative Industries:
- Theatre and Performance
- Directing
- Teaching
- Applied Theatre and Community theatre practitioners
- Theatre Marketing, Management and Administration
- Academia
- Journalism
- Events Management and presentation.
- Leadership and Managerial roles.
Course Details
Throughout your course, you will be asked searching questions around contemporary theatre making processes and investigate current creative industry debates and concerns, while studying four separate modules:
- Staging Plays 1: Visualisation
- Staging Plays 2: Realisation
- Industry Perspectives: Entrepreneurship, Employability, Enterprise
- Creative Company: Innovation and Impact
Through our course, you will be able to negotiate the production roles and opportunities that you want to explore with a professionally active mentor, playing to strengths and interests you have already acquired in the field through work or study.
Year 1
Creative Company: Innovation And Impact 60 credits
Industry Perspectives: Entrepreneurship, Employability, Enterprise 40 credits
Staging Plays 1 - Visualisation 40 credits
Staging Plays 2: Realisation 40 credits
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