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Study Details: MA 15 months full-time
MA Performance: Theatre Making will enable you to develop your creative and critical practice. It will encourage you to become a confident and articulate theatre maker and researcher.
Performance at Wimbledon is approached through questions of politics and ethics as well as aesthetics and practice. The course asks you to examine them through practical investigation and experimentation in a studio context.
You will think critically about your theatre making. You will want to place it in the context of contemporary performance and visual culture.
The course focuses on:
What to expect
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your portfolio of work and personal statement.
APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
For fees and funding information, please see website
Unit 1: Creative and critical methods
In this unit you will engage with the critical and creative practices of performance research and theatre making. You will look at transdisciplinary methods of artistic and political enquiry. This will help you gain a deeper understanding of contemporary theatre and performance as an expanded field of cultural and political practice.
Unit 2 - Performance practice
The unit will enhance the development of your creative research and compositional methods. You will focus on your theatre and performance-making.
Unit 3: Collaboration
The unit will enable you to extend your collaborative, compositional and research skills. You will work with other MA Performance courses, MA Theatre and Performance Design, or outside your discipline.
Unit 4: Performance research
In the final unit, you’ll complete a self-directed individual, collaborative or collective project drawing on the knowledge and skills developed throughout the course. You’ll examine a specific idea or theme through a critical lens, considering how social, racial and environmental concerns may impact and shape your personal performance practice.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
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