Performance Practice

The Performance Practice MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter offers you an opportunity to extend and reflect on your creative performance practice. The area of study is entirely dependent upon your expertise, and could include playwriting, acting, directing, physical theatre, dance theatre, music theatre, or music performance.

This Performance Practice Performance Practice MPhil/PhD programme from The University of Exeter The University of Exeter will be a series of creative projects designed to interrogate the research objectives of your chosen practice. Each creative project will be accompanied by an analytical commentary of normally no more than 10,000 words. Normally, the written commentaries and introductory material for a PhD in Performance Practice extend to 40,000 words.

Key facts:

• We are committed to ensuring you receive high quality research supervision to maximise your potential and prepare you for a rewarding career.
• Postgraduate students have access to the wide range of support offered by our Career Zone. In addition, postgraduate research students can access our Postgraduate Researchers’ Programme, which covers a range of topics to help you to succeed during your research degree and to act as a springboard for your research career.

Courses include:

• the relationship between theory and practice (praxis) between actor and character

• the politics of Shakespeare and English drama

• dramaturgy and writing for performance

• actor and performer training

• vocal practice

• gender and performance

• ancient Greek performance

• the theory of performance and interculturalism

• political and popular theatre

• applied theatre in the community

• performance art, new media, and bioart