Theatre and Performance

This course is for theatre and performance makers, designed by artists. Your background could be in theatre, performance, arts education, and/or socially engaged practice. Whatever your path, you’ll be guided by of a team of research active, internationally acclaimed staff who are committed to making theatre and performance matter.

As part of this Theatre and Performance program at Leeds Beckett University , you’ll:

• Take an informed, critical, and creative approach to making new theatre and performance work

• Explore the practical and conceptual bases for making theatre and performance

• Learn as part of a diverse range of performance communities

• Immerse yourself in a supportive, artist-centred learning environment that values culture-based and practice-led research

• Connect with other like-minded people interested in creating captivating performance work

• Be supported to access platforms such as national and international festivals to support the development of your work

• Develop the capacity for critical self and peer appraisal to facilitate complex strategies and procedures to improve performance

• Join a community focused on collaborative enquiry into theatre and performance practice

Career prospects

You’ll have a deepened sense of your individual practice and experience of making solo and collaborative performances in diverse settings.Your enhanced ability to work successfully in a range of artistic and professional context will widen your prospects as a freelance or employed theatre and performance maker.You’ll have the knowledge, confidence, and experience for roles such as:

• Director

• Writer

• Performer

• Educator

• Community arts practitioner

Courses:

• Research in the Arts
• Critical Conversations
• Major Project
• Commission