Band B
Overall IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0 and component scores. The University of Warwick operates an Equal Opportunities Policy and values Diversity; it welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds.
This MA in Applied Theatre: Arts, Action, Change is a taught postgraduate degree that addresses contemporary practice in applied theatre and socially engaged performance. It invites students to explore, make and interrogate performance practices that are broadly concerned with contributing to social change in a variety of settings (e.g. criminal justice, theatre for development, homelessness, learning disability, schools, the elderly and healthcare). With a strong focus on professional practice and development, the degree addresses the ways in which performance modes can contribute to different applied, community and institutional settings nationally and internationally.
It investigates the claims made about performance and its potential to be transformative and rehabilitative and tests these claims through close consideration of contemporary practices in the field. It also addresses the political and ethical implications that come into play and the importance of constantly questioning what is at stake when working in specific contexts. It explores what it means to be an artist working for change and aims to develop skills of project design, facilitation and evaluation. The programme is aimed at emerging practitioners with a background in theatre, education, politics or activism, as well as at more established practitioners who want to reflect, refresh and develop their skills.
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Core Modules
Researching Performance/Performing Research
Theorising and Facilitating Applied Theatre: Ethics and Reflective Practice
Enhancing your Professional Profile
Optional Modules
Previously these modules have included:
Socially Engaged Performance: Interventions and Provocations
Adaptation (MA Writing and Dramaturgy)
Education for Sustainable Development (MA Drama and Theatre Education)
Drama and Literacy (MA Drama and Theatre Education)
Final Project (core) with Written (15,000 words) and Practical routes.
A person who undertakes this MA programme might pursue the following career trajectories:
Applied theatre practitioner/facilitator
Community arts organiser
Cultural coordinator and partnership manager
Theatre in therapeutic contexts (health and care sectors)
Theatre in Education or Education Officer in a professional theatre/museums
Arts Officer in Local Government
Theatre for Development
Work in the charitable/NGO sectors
Research and Teaching in the FE/HE sectors
Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:
Careers workshop for Theatre and Performance Studies Students
Discovering Careers in the Creative Industries
Careers in Radio Film and Television
Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
A history and DIY Guide to setting up and running a Theatre Company
IHS per year: GBP 500
