An Evening’s Potential
Each year, students on our Theatre Studies Postgraduate Taught programmes stage a play-reading event to showcase their works in progress. MLitt Theatre Studies student Hannah Harper tells us about her...
View ArticleInvestigating the Hidden Histories of the Citizens Theatre Through Playwriting
PhD candidate Jenny Knotts tells us about her research into the history of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre. My Practice-as- Research PhD, Play/writing histories: Navigating the Personal, Public and...
View ArticleWe Are All Lichens | Hanna Tuulikki reflects on Donna Haraway
Hanna Tuulikki is a Glasgow based artist, composer and performer. Having joined us as a panellist for a recent screening of Terranova’s film portrait, ‘Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly...
View ArticlePero, Performance & Mental Health | Interview with Theatremaker Mabli Godden
Mabli Godden is a dramaturg, community artist and theatre practitioner. She graduated in Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow in 2014 and went on to complete an MLitt in Playwriting and...
View ArticleTake Me Somewhere | Conversation over Live Art Lunch
In May 2019 Dr Stephen Greer, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow, hosted the Live Art Lunch series at Take Me Somewhere festival. His aim was to explore new approaches...
View ArticleLive Encounters | Thinking Digitally at the National Theatre of Scotland
As Digital Thinker in Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland Dr Harry Wilson has spent the past year researching innovative uses of digital technologies in the context of theatre and...
View ArticleInspiring Women: the stories behind our pictures for International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day in 2020, the University of Glasgow recreated a 150 year old photo of male senior academics with women from the university’s community. In the spirit of this,...
View ArticleBertha Waddell’s Children’s Theatre: combing the Scottish Theatre Archive for...
Founded almost 100 years ago, remarkably forward-looking and still echoing in contemporary times, Siân MacGregor found their elusive history irresistible when researching children’s theatre as part of...
View ArticlePerforming the Archive
Over the past eight months, Theatre Studies has been collaborating with the team at the University of Glasgow’s Archives and Special Collections to explore how performance methodologies might help...
View ArticleParis, May 1968
The final post in our Student Undergraduate Award Showcase is a two-hander, as Theatre Studies students Emma Drostby and Christopher Watts’ reflect on their performance piece, ‘Paris, May 1968’. The...
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