The MA in Theatre & Performative Practices at UCC offers students a unique opportunity to develop their individual and collaborative creative and critical theatre practices, within an Irish context.
The MA offers professional artists, recent arts graduates, and those interested in a rigorous exploration of theatre and performative arts practice, a dynamic practice-based and intellectually demanding learning environment.
The MA is distinctive within an Irish and international context, because of its unique commitment to experimental and interdisciplinary processes of collaboration and composition, through and in combination with a lively programme of internships and residencies. The MA's innovative course ecology organizes exploration around the fundamental processes of theatre practice; body, voice and context. A focus on the spiral interplay of attention, perceiving and making, makes this MA a space that generates innovative theatre and cutting-edge content.
The MA in Theatre & Performative Practices is designed to produce flexible, empowered theatre artists who rock the boat and invigorate the cultural life of Ireland, Europe and beyond.
The MA in Theatre & Performative Practices is taught through a lively combination of studio-based training, critical seminars, internships, workshops with visiting theatre artists, critics and theorists, as well as engagement with the department's research and practice seminar - Perforum, and through a plural and multi-level engagement with festivals, events, installations and performances throughout the year. Bring your leotard and your Lyotard, and a bottle of water.
Why Choose This Course
The MA in Theatre & Performative Practices at UCC offers students a unique opportunity to develop their individual and collaborative creative and critical theatre practices, through and in combination with a lively programme of internships and residencies.