Dr Joanna Bucknall
- Immersive, interactive and participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage and legacy
- Gamification and play in performance
Research-led professional practice
Drama and Theatre Arts
The department specialises in practice research, as well as critical and creative collaborations with theatre-makers and artists.
Through engaging in a variety of creative and critical collaborations, work in the department explores actor-training and directing methodologies; Live Art practice; theatre for young audiences; and immersive, interactive and participatory practices. This is framed by an engagement with the theorisations and methodologies of practice research and performance documentation.
Professor Adam J Ledger
- Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
- Devising
- The Odin Teatret
- Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
- Practice research
Dr Pablo Pakula
- Postdramatic theatre
- Devising
- Autobiographical performance
- Live art practices
- Practice as research
- Dramaturgy
Dr Caroline Radcliffe
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance