On this practical 2nd level module, students are set an assignment to create an outdoor performance which enhances environmental awareness and facilitates human-nature connectedness.
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Celebrating the breadth and variety of practical work in the department
On this practical 2nd level module, students are set an assignment to create an outdoor performance which enhances environmental awareness and facilitates human-nature connectedness.
Continue reading...It is always wonderful to hear from our MA Theatre Practice alumni who are arts practitioners, educators and researchers around the globe.In the last weeks, we received some brilliant messages and information about...
Continue reading...Level 3, Physical Performance, Micro Performance (assessment) sharing, Roborough Studios Tech designed and composed by the students. With thanks to the tech team and Francis Parker for supporting this student...
Continue reading...On 26, 27 and 28 November, the students of DRA2109 Ensemble Acting Co-Creation shared their final performances to invited audiences. The work was diverse and varied, ranging from highly physicalised...
Continue reading...Prof Rebecca Loukesâ Practice Research project exploring womenâs bodies as sites of resistance completed its 10-venue run this Autumn with three nights at Theatre Royal Plymouth. The Luminous was created by RedCape...
Continue reading...After a busy summmer period of refurbishments and refreshments, our technical team have designed and specified a brand new 50-seat screening room / lecture theatre in the Alexander Building. The...
Continue reading...Thereâs no better way to finish the first day of the Comms/Drama/Film presessional research event than with a new Punch and Judy performance – part of The Judy Project looking...
Continue reading...In early May 2024, the students of the MA Theatre Practice (Training & Performance Pathway) took up a week-long residency at The Globe. Their course consisted of acting, voice and...
Continue reading...Thank you so much to T.Sasitharan from Intercultural Theatre Institute Singapore for an inspiring workshop with our MAs, PhDs and undergrads on interculturalism and theatre followed by a thought-provoking Research...
Continue reading...The Term 3 Festival launched with a world premiere of a new dark comedy written by Peter Oswald and performed by Peter and Howard Gayton, as part of his PhD...
Continue reading...Sunday 12 May 2024 – Shows throughout the day 12:30 â 17:30Come to see a Punch & Judy like none you have seen before! Spike âBonesâ Lidington will premiere his show at...
Continue reading...2nd year students performing with their ‘Royal Box’ peepshow outside the Roborough Building, inspired by working with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum collection and Dr Tony Lidington on the ‘Popular Performance...
Continue reading...Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Alissa Mello, is collaborating on a new Punch and Judy show with the fabulous Spike âBonesâ Lidington, Tony âUncle Tacko!â Lidington, and Promenade Promotions (http://www.prom-prom.com/) in consultation with Naomi...
Continue reading...Our second year Applied Drama students, facilitated by Erin Walcon and her team at Doorstep Arts, have run a weekend Devising Discovery Platform event for students from local schools. The...
Continue reading...Students on the MA Film & Screen Studies produced a public-facing exhibition as part of the Archival Encounters module. Using artefacts from the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, supported by the...
Continue reading...The CDF Tech team have worked with Communications academic staff to design and build a newly-configured Multimedia and Gaming space to be used on the Games Studies module this term....
Continue reading...Some Exeter Film students had the opportunity to meet with David Puttnam on their graduation day when he came to receive his Honorary Degree. They enjoyed a tour of the...
Continue reading...Communications students have started a new podcast. Sip n Spill focuses on themes related to cultural studies, and will feature interviews with members of the Comms team and industry professionals,...
Continue reading...Course leader Konstantinos Thomaidis ended the term with these words: 145 hours of training later… Term 1 of studio work for the MA Theatre Practice 2023 wraps up! A polaroid...
Continue reading...The 3rd year Drama module ‘Physical Performance’ held a series of showings with minimal (but carefully curated) technical and practical elements. Led by tutor Emily Kreider, the groups created some...
Continue reading...For the 2nd year optional Drama module ‘Theatres of Space, Form and Colour’, students explore histories, concepts, contexts and techniques relevant to European modernist experimentation with performance, with an emphasis...
Continue reading...A large group of students and staff gathered in the Bill Douglas Cinema in Queens Building to watch an advance screening of the glorious documentary “Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange...
Continue reading...Second-year Drama optional module Approaches to Comedy introduced a range of performance styles and techniques and culminated in a showing in Roborough Studios.
Continue reading...The CDF tech team have worked with students on the MA International Film Business to provide equipment and transport for their pop-up cinema projects. This year, these were presented as...
Continue reading...This new Drama module involved the students working in small companies to co-create new pieces of performance, led by tutors Erin Walcon and Caleb Lee. The performances shown in the...
Continue reading...Nick Reilly from Rolling Stone came to talk to Communications students on 25 October in the Alexander Building. He covered a range of topics from his career breaking pop culture...
Continue reading...Staff and students from the BA Communications programme enjoyed a mixer/quiz/games event at Roborough Studios.
Continue reading...The CDF tech team have re-equipped Studio TS3 to function as a TV Studio for the new Drama ‘Acting for Screen’ module. There are 4 cameras (3 on wheeled tripods,...
Continue reading...On 22nd September we had a wonderful nourishing evening celebrating the work and legacy of Professor Phillip Zarrilli, as we dedicated Studio TS1 in the Alexander Building ‘The Phillip Zarrilli...
Continue reading...The CDF tech team have worked with BBC production staff as part of the British Science Festival, to transform Roborough Studios into a TV Studio for the Question Time Special...
Continue reading...On 23rd March 2023, students took to the stage of the Exeter Northcott Theatre to perform Comrades, as the culmination of their 2nd year production module. The radical play with...
Continue reading...The former toilet adjacent to TS3 has been converted into a student kitchen, enabling students often working long hours in the building to have some warm food and a hot...
Continue reading...Opened in 2021, this digital facility is based in the Green Room of Roborough Studios, and provides an acoustic pod in which up to 4 people can record a podcast...
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