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Drama (by thesis and by practice) MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Drama and Theatre Studies subject area.
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- For more information on how to apply, contact information@kent.ac.uk
Key facts
- Subject area: Drama and Theatre Studies
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of Arts
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or 2.1 honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent professional experience. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Individual staff research interests cover a wide range of both historical and contemporary aspects of the theory and practice of theatre, and supervision is available in all these areas. For these programmes you have regular meetings with your supervisor as well as tuition in research methodologies in the early stages of your research. Additionally, we regularly invite academic and professional specialists for guest lectures, workshops and special events relevant to students' research. Practice-based students also have supervision in the studio or other practice-related spaces. We provide financial and production support for students' projects.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
The School of Arts has a number of fees-only scholarships available for its research students, plus a research studentship to cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and, depending on the terms and conditions of the award, a maintenance grant.
For further details of postgraduate funding, including AHRC and overseas bodies, see Postgraduate funding.
View further information about scholarships available in the School of Arts.
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Resources and facilities
The School of Arts' award-winning new Jarman Building offers professional standard drama faciilties, 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.
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Research groups
Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance
The research centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance brings together Drama staff and staff in Multimedia, Psychology, Anthropology, and the Tizard Centre to explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration between researchers and practitioners in the fields of cognitive neuroscience, interactive performance, digital media, disability studies, and applied performance.
please see www.c4ckp.org
Staff
Dr Helen Brooks, Dr Rosie Klich, Dr Nicola Shaughnessy, Dr Melissa Trimingham, Dr Angie Varakis-Martin.
European Theatre
At Kent, the UK's European university, we have set up the European Theatre Research Network to facilitate and foster the exchange of theatre traditions, contemporary practices and academic discussion on the near European continent and also in the new European states. We invite postgraduate research students to contribute to and play a part in this expanding network. please see www.europeantheatre.org.uk/
Staff
Professor Paul Allain, Dr Peter M Boenisch, Dr Frank Camilleri, Professor Patrice Pavis, Dr Duska Radosavljevic, Professor Robert Shaughnessy, Dr Angie Varakis-Martin.
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|Staff research
Professor Paul Allain: Professor of Theatre and Performance
Movement and physical performance approaches to actor training, especially the Suzuki Method; contemporary East European and Polish theatre, Grotowski and the Gardzienice Theatre Association; intercultural theory and practice and performance anthropology.
Dr Peter Boenisch: Senior Lecturer
Dramaturgy and mise-en-scène in contemporary European theatre; dance and the body on stage; theatre and intermediality.
Dr Helen Brooks: Lecturer
Restoration and long 18th-century theatre and performance, with a special emphasis on women's theatre of the period.
Dr Frank Camilleri: Lecturer
Psychoanalysis and postmodern thought; theatre practice and critical theory; Ingemar Lindh.
Dr Oliver Double: Senior Lecturer
Stand-up comedy; punk performance; variety theatre; Karl Valentin.
Dr Rosemary Klich: Lecturer
Multimedia theatre; new media performance; contemporary live art and performance; history of performance art; the 20th-century avant-garde; theatre reviewing.
Professor Patrice Pavis: Professor of Drama
European theatre; mise-en-scène; theories of acting; contemporary performance and playwriting.
Dr Duska Radoslavjevic: Lecturer
Dramaturgy, theatre translation and adaptation, the "ensemble way of working", and contemporary theatre practices in the UK and in Europe.
Dr Nicola Shaughnessy: Senior Lecturer
Contemporary performance; gender; dramatic auto/biography; applied performance.
Professor Robert Shaughnessy: Professor of Theatre
Shakespeare and early modern drama in performance; post-war and contemporary British and Irish drama; theatre and national cultures.
Dr Melissa Trimingham: Lecturer
The modernist period, Bauhaus and Oskar Schlemmer; puppet and object theatre; communication on the autistic spectrum using puppetry; the relationship between robotics and puppetry.
Dr Angeliki Varakis-Martin: Lecturer
Greek theatre; commedia dell'arte; masks and theatre.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Professor Robert Shaughnessy,
School of Arts,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NS, UK
E: r.shaughnessy@kent.ac.uk
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