MA Theatre, Performance & Critical Culture at King's College London

This programme provides students with the opportunity to study theatre, performance, and related cultural practices in a dynamic intellectual community in the heart of London. It combines critical theory, creative inquiry, and interdisciplinary research across contemporary theatre, live art, cultural tourism, experimental choreography, and political performance. Students examine how performance engages with wider social, political, and environmental contexts, developing self-reflexive critical and performative writing practices.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities  |  Department: Department of English  |  Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Course essentials This master’s blends theatre and performance studies with a focus on critical culture to examine the contexts and material conditions within which performances take place. You’ll explore how to engage with questions of subject position and identity politics through the arts of writing and performance, considering how contemporary critical practice expands your own experience of theatricality and creative engagement. Your first required module in the Theatre, Performance and Critical Culture MA will trace the genealogies of critical theory.

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