Skip navigation
Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London - UCAS

Course options

2025 - 2026
Apply

There are other course options available which may have a different vacancy status or entry requirements – view the full list of options

Course summary

The MA Theatre and Performance will support your advanced research and practice in experimental theatre, socially engaged and participatory performance, live art, and activism. It will develop you as an independent scholar-artist, skilled at understanding, challenging and making theatre and performance as technologies for intervening in the most pressing issues of our times. The kinds of issues we will explore include gender, sexual, racial and class identity; protest and activism; and change towards climate and social justice. You will:

  • Work with world-leading academics and theatre practitioners
  • Study topics such as performance and embodiment, performance ethics, live art, and art as activism
  • Expand your knowledge and practice with our reimagined modules 'Culture, Ethics, Politics', 'Body, Action, Documentation' & 'Performance, Activism, Social Justice'
  • Choose from a practical or written dissertation
  • Undertake practice-based research in theatre and performance.
  • What you'll study*
Our MA Theatre and Performance encourages you to explore your own ideas in depth and build a body of original, thought-provoking work. A key benefit of the programme is its flexibility: across compulsory and optional modules, you can develop your interests in both theoretical and practical projects to advance your expertise and career. We balance rigorous theoretical and historical exploration with experimental performance practice. You will work with our internationally respected academic staff and attend workshops and mentoring sessions with in-house and visiting artists throughout your studies, building your professional network in the process. In recent years our MA has hosted a wide range of high-profile artists, including Stacy Makishi, Peggy Shaw and Manuel Vason among others. You will see the latest in contemporary theatre, from live art to productions at international institutions like the Royal Court. To develop your experience in the cultural industries, we offer a brief placement with one of our partner organisations or artists.

Modules

Please refer to our website.

Assessment method

Please refer to our website.

Entry requirements

A 2:1 or above at undergraduate level in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, English, History of Art, Fine Art or a related subject.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Students enrolling on a postgraduate degree programme are charged tuition fees each year by Queen Mary. The rate you will be charged depends on whether you are assessed as a Home/EU or Overseas student. You can find tuition fees for each course on the course finder pages on our website by clicking the apply link, or navigate here: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Further details about postgraduate taught tuition fees can also be found on our website: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/tuitionfees/
Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London - UCAS