MLitt Theatre and Performance Practices

This Masters provides an opportunity to develop your own theatre and performance practice in a critically informed context. You will be encouraged and supported to develop a reflective, rigorous and critically informed approach to creating your own work for performance. The programme encompasses practices such as contemporary devising and production dramaturgy, autobiographical performance, and sociallypolitically engaged practice. These critical perspectives will enhance and enrich your creative practice as we work to further your career as a theatreperformance practitionerresearcher.You'll have multiple opportunities to develop, present and receive feedback on your own theatre and performance practice. This involves mentoring by leading professional practitioners when you create your final practice as a research project. The programme is delivered by leading academics in collaboration with theatre practitioners active in Glasgow's performance scene and beyond.Students on this programme learn in a range of ways including in person and group discussion, verbal feedback and collaborative working. The programme is designed to give you a practical and critical engagement with many forms of theatre and performance practice through a variety of core and optional courses. You can take either an optional course or a work placement (agreed and negotiated with your tutor) according to your personal interests and perceived needs. Your optional course can be selected from across the College of Arts & Humanities, enabling an interdisciplinary approach. The programme concludes with a Practice as Research Project. This provides you with a degree of flexibility in relation to the focus of your advanced study. It permits further applied practice in the form of a major performance project or the opportunity to undertake an in-depth written study on an area of your choice.This programme is ideal for practitioners who want to develop their practice; graduates who are planning a career in theatre making; and those who want to look more in depth into aspects of theatre practice they have enjoyed and benefitted from through undergraduate studies. The programme also provides an excellent foundation for PhD study and an academic career.