Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, MA, Theatre Studies (Performance in the City)

Theatre journalism (print and broadcast): students produce (in written or audio-visual formats) a series of reviews of current productions, with the assistance of professionals involved in arts journalism and journal publication; theatre history: students address principles of historiography and engage with primary and secondary sources, and research takes place in theatre archives in London; research methods and outputs: students consider a range of ways of undertaking research and disseminating their findings, from group-briefing to journal publication, and contribute to a conference presentation; the cultural industry: students consider cultural policy and undertake a case study of a London-based organisation of their choice: for example, the National Theatre, the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) or the Barbican International Theatre Event (BITE); Shakespeare in London: students consider Shakespeare's work in relation to the pressures and performance practices of the Elizabethan/ Jacobean metropolis; students examine the history, artistic policy and performances of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and consider current approaches to Shakespearean production; theatre in a pluralist city: students examine both theatre and interculturalism and theatre and interdisciplinarity, looking at specific examples of new theatre in ethnic, intercultural or mixed-media contexts, considering the impact of globalisation on theatre making in the city; personal portfolio or dissertation: students develop their own interests through extended independent study, tutored by the course leader, and with the opportunity to make links with a professional organisation.