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This unique program has been designed to create forward-thinking conversations about what Shakespeare is and what Shakespeare can be in today’s world. As a student on the only course of its kind in the world, you will study everything from the history of Shakespeare in society, literary criticism, and theatre practices; before putting your knowledge into practice through a newly devised piece of theatre in response to Shakespeare’s work. This creative and ambitious program is ideal for aspiring academics, actors, writers, directors, arts administrators, as well as anyone with a lively interest in Shakespeare.

Theatre for Young Audiences is a practical training program for performers and makers from a range of disciplines, that explores approaches to making work for, by, and with children and young people. Underpinning the course is the ambition to define Theatre for Young Audiences as a cutting-edge arts practice, outside (or perhaps alongside) the Applied Theatre framing that so often dominates this area of training, encouraging co-creative processes that balance the sensibilities of the adult artist and the creative voice of children and young people.

The first and only MA of its kind to focus on queer performance, this course offers broad training in a range of queer performance practices, delivered by renowned queer artists, theatre-makers, academics, and researchers. Fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental, and interdisciplinary, the course provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of queer performance practice, studying its themes, methodologies, and untapped possibilities.

This course is the only postgraduate program in the world that takes candidates through a course of study that culminates in their receiving Designated Linklater Teacher status along with the MFA degree. A deep dive into the Linklater Voice method is the foundation of the MFA. The program was designed in close collaboration with Ms. Linklater and reflects her ideas of what a twenty-first-century postgraduate course for actor-teachers should look like. It is, in part, a voice-centred actor-training, rooted in Linklater’s approach to voice as fundamental to a whole system.

International Theatre Practice and Performance (ITPP) offers training for multi-disciplinary practitioners, with elements of acting, directing, writing, ensemble training, and contemporary performance. Multidisciplinary training with elements of acting, directing, writing, and collaborative ensemble practices. This program, designed specifically for US-based students, is delivered in partnership with the National Theater Institute (NTI) in Connecticut.

Arthaus. Berlin International School offers the international performing arts community full-time and part-time training programs on the postgraduate level in the field of devised theatre and performance. Practitioners with a background in theatre, performance, dance, circus arts, visual arts, design, architecture, directing, writing, or choreographing, can enroll in one of our MA or MFA degree programs or complete the training with a professional development certificate.

This advanced and rigorous MA/ MFA Contemporary Directing Practice program offers an experiential two-year course, where students will develop their vocabulary and find their own voice and vision as a director while acquiring and honing a diverse variety of skills, techniques, tools, and devices.

This program focuses on creating an ensemble, performer training, theatre-making, and performative writing. Informed by critical reflection and practice research, the uniqueness of this program lies in the opportunity to develop and present original work. In a collaborative context, students move creatively between different roles to develop skills in performance and independent-making practice.

Developed and led by renowned Actor Musician Jeremy Harrison, this vocational program builds on and extends the work developed on the College’s ground-breaking BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship program, drawing on our strong links to theatre-makers, directors, choreographers, writers, musical directors and performers involved in the development of this innovative area of theatre practice.

The MA/MFA Actor/Performer Training is a practice-based program for those seeking intensive advanced training as actors and performers alongside rigorous academic study and performance research. The program focuses specifically on actor/performer training, theatre creation, performative writing, informed critical reflection, and practice research.

At the heart of the PGCE Secondary Program is the notion of the teacher as a reflective practitioner. The course nurtures and develops a reflective approach to teaching and learning, and encourages BSTs (Bath Spa Teachers) to take a critical stance in their work. The Professional Studies Program is at the core of the PGCE Secondary Program, which integrates both University and partnership training.

Develop your own signature sound and production style through this forward-thinking music composition and sound production course. You’ll be able to tailor the MA Sound (Production) course's content to your own style and skills.

These courses provide the opportunity for students to develop the core competencies and skills of the dramatist and scriptwriter, to explore their own ‘voice’ and develop their confidence as dramatists and scriptwriters, and to appreciate the specific media contexts within which professional writers work. Students will undertake practice-based enquiry into techniques and processes for writing for stage and screen. They will also work on a series of scriptwriting projects to engage with different styles and formats of production. There will also be study into writing techniques and issues of performance in relation to theatre, cinema, television and other relevant contexts.

These courses offer specialist, vocational teaching in the field of movement for actors and production practice for movement directors. Bespoke movement placements at Central and in other professional theatre settings, such as other conservatoires, or theatre, opera or film organizations (both in Britain and internationally), are a key part of the course. There are opportunities for the development of individual movement specialisms and their application to the work of actors. Tradition, experience, eclecticism and innovation epitomize Central’s understanding of movement training for the theatre, and these unique courses have been created in that spirit.

Central graduates have become successful producers, among them Sir Cameron Mackintosh and David Jubb. Students will undertake masterclasses in producing with key industry leaders and innovators, and take an active role in the organization of events, productions and projects, underpinned by a solid understanding of the cultural industries, creative producing, and theory and research in the field. Creative producers work with artists to create performances and festivals, run venues and companies, manage projects, raise funds and investment, and negotiate commissions. While learning, students will also gain a career head start by building a vital network of industry and peer contacts.