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Drama
Programmes
Taught programmes
- Drama and Theatre - MA
- Shakespeare - MA
- Drama and Theatre: Physical Actor Training and Performance with a term in Moscow - MA
- Drama and Theatre: Physical Actor Training and Performance - MA
- Arts Criticism - MA
Research programmes
Did you know?
In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: ranked 12th nationally for research quality with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Overview
Postgraduate Drama and Theatre Studies at Kent has a very strong reputation for research and supervision in contemporary performance processes, theory and craft, as well as in the area of European theatre. The wide-ranging interests of our international team of leading and emerging researchers (from the UK, Australia, Malta, Greece, Germany and other countries) also include research strengths in medieval and early modern drama, multimedia performance, and in the history of comedy and popular performance.
Our distinctive focus at Kent is on theatre as practice, whatever the topic, area, mode and methodology of research, and we encourage postgraduate students to make use of our close links and contacts with local, national, and international (especially European) theatre companies, venues, schools and artists, both for research and to encourage professional postgraduate development.
Our flagship area of ‘Practice as Research' has so far attracted a range of researchers and professionals, including the co-directors of Ridiculusmus, performance artist Kazuko Hohki, and many others working in areas from physical theatre to visual performance and cross-disciplinary projects.
Did you know?
In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: ranked 12th nationally for research quality with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Postgraduate resources
The School of Arts' award-winning new Jarman Building offers professional standard drama facilities, along with social spaces and a dedicated centre for postgraduate students.
Additional facilities across the Canterbury campus include two theatres; the 113-seat Aphra Theatre (a courtyard-type gallery theatre space) and the Lumley Theatre, which is a flexible and adaptable white room space. Drama students also benefit from an additional rehearsal studio, a sound studio, a theatre design suite and an extensively equipped 1000msq construction workshop.
The University's Templeman Library is well resourced in our subject area and houses special collections of 19th-century manuscripts – playbills, programmes, prints and other theatre ephemera – theatrical biography and the history of the stage in the 19th and 20th centuries. It also has particular strengths as a research resource in English Renaissance drama, Russian and French theatre, and British theatre since 1900. Recently, we have acquired the Jacques Copeau Archive and the British Grotowski collection.
Did you know?
In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: ranked 12th nationally for research quality with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Key information
Dynamic publishing culture
Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: New Theatre Quarterly; Contemporary Theatre Review; TDR: The Drama Review; Performance Research; Shakespeare Survey. Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests
European links
In 2007, we launched the European Theatre Research Network (ETRN) and, from 2009, have been running new taught postgraduate programmes in European Theatre and Theatre Dramaturgy as part of this newly established research centre.
The ETRN builds on our strong links with the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards and the Grotowski Institute in Poland, with various London venues and companies as well as European institutions such as Kaaitheater Brussels, Volksbühne Berlin, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. We have links with various European universities such as Berlin, Amsterdam and Moscow and we encourage applications for co-tutelle supervisions of postgraduate work with another European partner university, where students study and research at both universities.
Conferences and seminars
We have strong links with organisations such as the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) and the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), and encourage postgraduates to present work within national and international conferences. Also, we run regular research seminars, workshops, and performance-related events led by members of staff, students, and invited experts and practitioners.
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|Did you know?
In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: ranked 12th nationally for research quality with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".
Contacts
Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Angela Whiffen
Postgraduate Coordinator, School of Arts
Jarman Building, University of Kent
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7UG
T:01227 827567
E: arts-pgadmin@kent.ac.uk
Did you know?
In the most recent Research Asessment Exercise: ranked 12th nationally for research quality with 70% of our research rated "world-leading" or "internationally excellent".