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MA Collaborative Theatre Production & Design

1 year, full-time

This new one-year Masters programme at the Guildhall School in London aims to bring together early-career theatre practitioners, including:

Designers
Sound Designers
Lighting Designers
Production Managers
Stage Managers
Video Designers

These practitioners work together in creative teams on an exciting and varied array of theatre projects. The programme is not intended to deliver core technical skills, but rather develop your ‘theatre making’ abilities, exploring your potential as a creative artist and enabling you to work with other students on a series of collaborative projects.

Programme structure

The Masters programme is a long academic year (180 credits) with Principal Study for designers, production managers and other creative artists and practitioners. At the start of the year, you will be immersed in a four-week creative project that inducts new students into the Guildhall School environment. You will also be allocated a Principal Study mentor from a pool of professional designers and production managers with whom the Department has strong working relationships.

Collaborative Practice

At the heart of this programme is Collaborative Practice, which aims to develop your ability to apply and integrate your specialist skills within a project. Throughout the year there are four projects, some of which are generated from within the creative teams, while others involve collaborating with students from one of the other Guildhall School Masters programmes. Options may include devising works as part of the Curious and Dialogue Festivals.

The timing and emphasis of these different projects will reflect the timing and emphasis of the various roles in the creative team. Over the year, the teams on your course will form and re-form, developing a creative vocabulary on a broad variety of projects and forging connections with other artists.

Residential project

The programme also includes a three-to-four-week residential project, intended to take you into an unfamiliar area of work. The idea is to offer an opportunity for creative collaboration unconstrained by preconceptions or prejudices. In 2016 and 2017 this culminated in 'Playtime', a devised piece created over three weeks at the Centre de Creation in France as a tribute to physical theatre and circus skills.

Final Assessment

Final assessment will include a folio which will illustrate the individual’s contribution to the various projects they have engaged with over the year.

Research

Students will be required to complete a specialist research paper. This allows students to independently develop a specialist area of research under the guidance of the module tutor and in consultation with staff who have expertise in the student's area of interest.

Integration

A final substantial self-reflective component will be submitted at the end of the programme followed by a Viva Voce.

See the full programme specifications, including module specifications and assessment criteria.

Applying for the Programme

Information about applying online and the deadline for applications can be found in our Apply webpages.

Interviews

Interviews for entry are usually held in London, New York and at USITT. Find out more about interview dates an details on our interviews page.

Visit the School

Interested in visiting the School and seeing our facilities? If you’re considering the MA Collaborative Theatre Production and Design then our team are happy to arrange tours of the School in London at other times and answer any questions you may have – email us at tta_applications@gsmd.ac.uk to find out more.

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