7th September 2021

We updated the module descriptions for the following modules:

Performance Analysis

As part of this module you will experience a variety of productions at some of the most significant performance venues in our region, including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Belgrade Theatre, the Birmingham REP and Warwick Arts Centre. You will develop the basic strategies, methodologies and tools of analysis that you need to ‘read’, respond and write about theatre and performance.

Revised content

As part of this module you’ll be exposed to theatre and performance in a wide variety of forms. You’ll learn about theories and approaches to performance analysis and will develop your own methods to produce critical responses to artistic work. You’ll complete the module with an understanding of all of the tools that you might need to ‘read’, respond and write about theatre and performance.

Theatre and Performance in Context

This module introduces key concepts in theatre and performance studies, uncovering what theatre and performance can tell us about our cultures, societies and identities. These understandings are applied to case studies from around the world, which include ‘canonical’ events and alternative practices, both from within theatres and beyond them. The module hones your academic writing, research and presentation skills, which will serve you throughout your degree.

Revised content

This module considers what theatre and performance can tell us about our histories, cultures, societies and identities. You’ll watch, read and study a range of theatre and performance from across historical, cultural and geographical borders, in order to see how it not only reflects society, but also seeks to change and shape it. The module is split into four blocks, considering theatre and gender, race, sexuality and class. This module will help you to hone your academic writing, research and presentation skills, which will serve you throughout your degree.

Inter-Performance

Part practical and part theoretical, this module explores the ‘inter-ness’ of performance – considering particularly how performance is inter-disciplinary, but also inter-active; how it intervenes, interrupts and inter-faces with contemporary social, cultural and technological issues and activities in the world. It will draw on specific expertise of different lecturers, thus offering different topics each year to demonstrate how we can explore these aspects of ‘inter-ness’ via case studies.

Revised content

Part practical and part theoretical, this module works to explore the intersections between Theatre and Performance Studies and other disciplines. You’ll ask how we do interdisciplinary research and how findings can be shared with audiences through practice. Lecturers draw on their own current research projects as material to teach the module, so its content changes each year. We begin by considering these intersections through lecture-seminars, via discussion and some practice. We then shift into innovative practice-based work that culminates in a practical realisation of a specific issue or enquiry in which performance intersects with another discipline.

Research Project

On this pathway you’ll carry out independent research into an area of theatre and performance studies that you’re passionate about and will write an extended dissertation on your findings. Throughout the research and writing process you’ll be supported by structured class activities and regular one-to-one supervision meetings with a member of the academic team. To aid the development of your work, you’ll present your research as an academic poster and at a departmental undergraduate conference during the year.

Revised content

On this module you’ll carry out independent research into an area of theatre and performance studies that you love and will write an extended dissertation on your findings. Throughout the research and writing process you’ll be supported by structured class activities and regular one-to-one supervision meetings with a member of the academic team. To aid the development of your work, you’ll present your research at a departmental undergraduate conference during the course of the year.

Practice-based Research Project

On this pathway you’ll develop practical work that is grounded in research. This may take a range of forms, including (but not limited to) live theatre, participatory workshops, an installation, a video, a written play, a space or a production’s costume design. You’ll be supported through in-class workshops, supervision meetings, and work-in-progress showings. Your final work will be showcased as part of the Department’s Verge Festival at Warwick Arts Centre, after which you’ll write a critical reflection on your creation process and performance.

Revised content

On this module you’ll develop a practical project that is shaped by your questions about the world. This project may take a range of forms, including (but not limited to) live theatre, participatory workshops, an installation, a video, a written play, a space or a costume design, and you can choose to work solo or in small groups. You’ll be supported through in-class workshops, supervision meetings, and work-in- progress showings. Your final work will be showcased as part of the Department’s Verge Festival at Warwick Arts Centre.

10th March 2021

We have updated the ‘Teaching’ tab and the Class sizes information (first line second paragraph).

We previously said:

Each year we aim for a cohort size of around 30-40 students.

Our amended content reads:

Each year we aim for a cohort size of around 40 students.

Initial launch

This page was launched on 2nd March 2021.