The department specialises in practice-led 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-as-research and performance documentation.
Lecturer
- Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice as research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage & legacy
- Gamification & play in performance
Emeritus Professor of Drama
Key areas of research:
- Shakespeare on screen
- Representations of the theatre in film and in other media
- 19th century British Theatre
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
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance