MA Performance: Writing
University of the Arts London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Performance: Writing
Performance: Writing focuses on the craft and technical aspects of writing for performance. It offers teaching that supports you to develop your skills and voice as a writer. In an ever changing, intensely competitive UK and global sector, it encourages you to identify who you are writing for, and to explore relevant outlets for your work.
The course engages with established and innovative writing practices across theatre, audio, television, film and digital media. It acknowledges the key similarities and differences between writing for different media. The course engages in debates relating to scriptwriting, script development and script production.
The course structure is student-centred, tailoring learning to your own interests wherever possible. It will help you produce a portfolio of work, written for different media, and a variety of performance contexts.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Unit 1: Skills and Practices 1
- Unit 1 explores dramaturgy. It examines the techniques, issues and debates surrounding the theory and practice of dramatic writing and writing for performance. It covers different forms including theatre, TV, audio and digital media.
Unit 2: Skills and Practices 2
- Building on the dramaturgical and compositional strategies developed in Unit 1 this Unit explores the cinematic experience, film theory and writing for Film, and how to structure and format a screen play. It also introduces you to writing for animation.
Unit 3: Professional Preparation
- Unit 3 prepares you for professional practice and what it means to forge and have a career as writer. This it does, by encouraging you to identify your writer’s voice by reflecting on your ideas, vision and personality expressed in your work. You will research and choose ‘outlets’ for their work. You will be shown how to construct a personal and professional development plan. You will be taught pitching skills, and approaches to self-production. You will explore complementary opportunities available to you as a professional writer, including script reading, editing, development and facilitation.
Unit 4: Final Portfolio
- Unit 4 constitutes an intensive writing period in which you will complete a major project for one medium, as well as two proposals for different media. Combined with the work you have created in in Units 1 and 2 this will complete your portfolio of ‘writing for performance’.
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Career Opportunities
Graduates from MA Performance: Writing will be equipped to work with creativity and focus in diverse environments, and to design and explore their own ways of working, confident in building and maintaining working relationships, yet also aware of their unique role in being the ‘champions’ of the story.
Program delivery
Two years (60 weeks) Extended full-time