Research in the department covers a range of practices of and approaches to contemporary performance, with a particular focus on the use of critical, philosophical and political theory.
Our work around contemporary theatre and performance covers a broad range of practices from across Europe and Britain. We engage in the critical, political and contextual analysis of various modes of theatrical and performance-based practices, including new writing; devised performance; music; digital technologies; immersive and participatory performance; European theatre since 1960; festivals and tourism; Performance Art and Live Art; and acting and directing methodologies.
Senior Lecturer
- The medicalised body in performance
- Anatomical dissection and bodily display as performance
- Medical humanities
- Politics of identity and performance
- Contemporary theatre practice and critical theory
- Live art Performance and interdisciplinary practice
Lecturer
- Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice as research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage & legacy
- Gamification & play in performance
Reader in Theatre and Performance
- Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
- Devising
- The Odin Teatret
- Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
- Practice as research
Senior Lecturer
- Samuel Beckett.
- Contemporary British theatre and performance.
- Performance and popular culture.
Reader in Drama and Performance
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance
Lecturer
- Contemporary socio-political drama (British and European)
- Ancient Greek and Roman plays and their influence on British theatre
- Medieval and Renaissance drama
- Non-standard forms of contemporary drama and theatre
- Drama and narration
- Literary and cultural theory and networks
- Ethics and drama
- Post-postmodernism
- Intermediality
Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama
- Harold Pinter
- British alternative or fringe theatre
- Contemporary Shakespeare
- Arts Council
- Samuel Beckett
Senior Lecturer
- Russian actor training, particularly Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov, Meyerhold
- The history of Russian theatre of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- The plays of Anton Chekhov
- Actor-training and Alexander Technique