Dramaturgy as Critical Practice is a Research Hub in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow.
We are a group of academic researchers and practitioners who take an expanded view of dramaturgy as the starting point for exploring performance and its place in our culture: as a political, culturally and historically-located mode of knowledge production, and as a framework for interrogating the complex interrelationships of people, places and things. This work spans books and essays, films, live performances, and public artworks, and the curation of conferences and other conversations.
You can visit some our projects linked below or our individual Research Profiles for full details of our work across the team.
Together with the Performance, Ecology and Heritage Hub, we host a long-running series of open talks from researchers, artists and other public thinkers – the Glasgow Theatre Seminars.
Postgraduate research
Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow offers a world-class environment for PhD studies, centred on a community of internationally-recognised researchers and practitioners. We have an excellent track record of supporting students to successful completion of their research degrees, as well as in helping candidates secure highly-competitive AHRC scholarships.
We also offer three highly-regarded taught post-graduate programmes that offer a pathway to further research study, including MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy.
Our projects
Ongoing AHRC/UKRI-funded research includes Steve Greer’s Live Art in Scotland exploring histories of live art and experimental performance in Scotland, and Liz Tomlin’s Class Concerns – Figurations of working-class subjects in UK theatre practice and policy.
Other recent projects linked to the hub include Anselm Heinrich and Michael Bachmann’s work on German and British performance archives, Graham Eatough’s Floating Worlds (2020) and The Seaweed Gatherers (2022) which can be accessed via the Islands in the Global Age Arts Lab website, Erica O’Neill’s special issue ‘Attention! Paris Dada‘ (co-edited with Kathryn Brown), and Cristina Delgado-Garcia’s work on affect in contemporary British and European theatre.
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