MA DIRECTING PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

Course Overview

This master's degree is designed to provide practical experience in directing and creating work for the theatre. Collaboration is at the heart of the programme to effectively replicate the industry. You will have the opportunity to work with students from other courses including acting, film, television and theatre production, set design, visual effects and costume - to deliver projects from start to finish. This course offers postgraduates ten hours teaching time a week combined with the support, facilities and resources needed for students to conduct their own self-directed study and research. Programme Specification Thinking of applying? Find out more about our fees&housing.

Course Details

Under guidance from experienced writers, directors and actors, you will explore and manage the entire directing process. From planning and prep work, through the rehearsal process to the final performance. The focus of this Masters degree is the development of your directorial skill-set and style – whether that be in creating new work or exciting and innovative adaptions of existing plays. You will work on a wide range of approaches to directing, ranging from how to work with text to creating work utilising multi-media in performance. You will look at ways of creating your own work with an ensemble and gain knowledge of funding applications so you are ready to set up your own company after graduation. By the end of this intense year-long degree, you will have completed at least 3 contrasting and challenging projects. You will have the opportunity to shadow directors and work as an Assistant Director on a range of projects to help inform your own practice. Working within the School’s Acting department you will have access to rehearsal rooms, our theatre and, where required, film & television studios.

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ARC

Screen Skills

North East Screen

Moving Parts

Creative UK

Northern Studios

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Industry Links

Although a new Masters Degree, the course already has important industry links within the region and nationally including: • Arc • Newcastle Puppetry Festival • Fuel Theatre • Janet Plater Management • Gyre & Gimble • Tangled Feet Theatre

The Northern Studios

The Northern School of Art is pushing ahead with an exciting plan to establish a 30,000 sq ft commercial film and television sound stage facility and studio complex ‘The Northern Studios’ right on campus! These facilities will allow students at the Northern School of Art an extraordinary opportunity for access to industry guest speakers and the possibility of work experience on professional film and television programmes, as well as having access to a brand new television and film studio. In addition we have a 129-seater theatre space already in use for students. It is intended that the studios will be used by the ever-growing number of major commercial production companies who film and work in the North East. Potentially, you will have access to working studios right on your doorstep!

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Robert Icke Robert Icke FRSL is an English writer and theatre director. He has been referred to as the "great hope of British theatre." He is an award-winning writer and director, working in theatre and on screen. He is currently the Ibsen Artist in Residence at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, supported by the Philip Loubser Foundation. His awards include two Evening Standard ‘Best Director’ Awards, the Critics’ Circle Award, the Kurt Hübner Award for his debut production in Germany, and the Olivier Award for ‘Best Director’, of which he is the youngest ever winner. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. roberticke.com