MA Performance: Theatre Making

Course overview

MA Performance: Theatre Making will enable you to develop your creative and critical practice. It will encourage you to become a confident and articulate theatre maker and researcher.

Performance at Wimbledon is approached through questions of politics and ethics as well as aesthetics and practice. The course asks you to examine them through practical investigation and experimentation in a studio context.

You will think critically about your theatre making. You will want to place it in the context of contemporary performance and visual culture.

The course focuses on:  

• Theatre-making as an integrated, multi-disciplinary practice. Combining, for example, writing, design, acting and dramaturgy.  
• Developing innovative compositional strategies for performance-making as a studio-based, embodied and material practice.
• The creation of post-dramatic and politically engaged performance. 

What to expect  

• Investigation: Explore the opportunities and challenges posed by the development of new theatre and performance practices, technologies, histories and critical and decolonial perspectives.
• Learn new skills: Become familiar with theatrical and compositional practices and improve your physical and vocal performance skills.
• Ensemble theatre: You’ll investigate the formation, support and sustainability of ensemble practice.
• Collaboration: Enhance your understanding of the collaborative nature of performance. This will further enable you to build ideas, proposals and events.
• Research: You’ll produce a dissertation, as well as learn about creative research methods through practical workshops, lectures and seminars.
• Project frameworks: You’ll be introduced to project conceptualisation, design and development.
• Wider contexts: You’ll look at interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices. 
• Audience relationships: You’ll consider engagement and interaction with individuals, communities and the public.
• Potential opportunities: You’ll research the partnerships and collaborations needed to create effective interventions.
• Final major project: You’ll develop a final project based on an area of personal research that will be presented as a public performance or similar output.
• Access to Wimbledon's shared workshops: View the Wimbledon facilities.  

Industry experience and opportunities

There may also be opportunities to take part in international exchanges, including festivals, biennales and other MA exchanges. Your course leader can also offer advice on how to find internships and network with performance companies and other relevant partners.

Mode of Study

MA Performance: Theatre Making is offered in full-time mode and runs for 45 weeks over 15 months, with a break over the summer. You will be expected to commit an average of 40 hours per week to your course, including teaching hours and independent study.

Home fee

£14,000

This fee is correct for 2025/26 entry and is subject to change for 2026/27 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Students from countries outside of the UK will generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex so read more about tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£29,990

This fee is correct for 2025/26 entry and is subject to change for 2026/27 entry.

Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year. For this course, you can pay tuition fees in instalments.

Students from countries outside of the UK will generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex so read more about tuition fees and determining your fee status.