BA (Hons) Theatre Studies - BA (Hons) Degree
University of Lancaster
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster, LA1 4YW
Tel: 01524 594157
Fax: 01524 594900
Email: ugadmissions@lancs.ac.uk
Professor of Contemporary Performance: Elaine Aston
Senior Lecturer: Dr Andrew Quick
Course Description:
Theatre Studies opened in l979, building on seven years of minor courses and extra-curricular activities. Since then the academic staff has grown from 3 to 7 and we have created a team with a range of complementary interests and skills and a shared philosophy of the subject. The practice of theatre and performance has always been fundamental to our approach to Theatre Studies. At Lancaster we are committed to the interrogation of the relationship between theory and practice and the investigation of drama, theatre and performance of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
Since the founding of Theatre Studies, the general perspective on theatre studies/drama has changed and evolved. During the last decade, the concepts of theatricality and performativity have been appropriated by other disciplines. Recently, the concept of performativity, enriched through these encounters with other subjects, has re-entered Theatre Studies, so that the concerns of Theatre Studies in general are now much wider than dramatic literature. While ensuring that drama and dramaturgy retain an important place at all levels of study within our department, we are committed to the investigation of performance, which not only includes drama and theatre but also exceeds both.
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