Theatre and Performance Studies and Global Sustainable Development

Theatre and performance studies is a discipline that takes seriously the power of live performance to challenge assumptions, shift perspectives, and create new ways of understanding the world. It encompasses the history and theory of theatre, performance analysis, and the making of theatrical work itself, asking both how performance works as an art form and what role it plays in culture and society. Combining this with global sustainable development is a particularly resonant pairing: theatre has a long history of political and social engagement, and the capacity to imagine different futures is central to both artistic practice and the project of sustainability.

At the University of Warwick, this three-year full-time programme explores the radical and revolutionary artistic power of theatre and entertainment alongside the major challenges facing the global community. You will develop the critical and analytical skills to understand theatrical traditions and contemporary performance practice, while also engaging with the social, environmental, and political dimensions of sustainable development. The programme encourages you to link the artistic tools of theatre to today's global challenges, asking how performance can be a means of advocacy, education, and social change as well as an art form in its own right.

A sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement are all built into the programme, giving you extensive professional and international experience that deepens both your theatrical and your global development perspective. With a typical entry tariff of 168 UCAS points, this is a competitive programme at a leading research university.

Graduates from this combination are well placed across the arts, education, and the third sector. Theatre-making, arts education, community arts, youth and social theatre, documentary and applied performance, environmental advocacy organisations, NGOs, and international development bodies are all natural destinations. The combination of creative and analytical skills with an understanding of global challenges is genuinely distinctive and valued in organisations working across culture, development, and social change.