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Hope this finds you well. We have had some incredible applicants to our new MA Immersive Theatre, commencing in just over a month from now. Interviews are still ongoing for applicants with a desire to explore new forms and ideas both independently and collaboratively.


The overview page for MA Immersive Theatre is here: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/immersive-theatre.

There is a video of a presentation in which the programme tutors talk about the programme here:

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All applications for this MA should be submitted to: [log in to unmask] and should be titled ‘Immersive Theatre (MA)' . We are happy to chat, just drop an email to any or all of the lead tutors on this programme:


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Dr. James Frieze

Dr. Teri Howson-Griffiths
Sarah Hogarth



OVERVIEW


In the early, tutor-led phase of the programme, the focus is on building core knowledge. As well as surveying the various ways of telling stories and addressing themes through immersive performance, you work alongside other MA students to get a handle on the research methodologies available for the framing of immersive and participatory modes of performance. You will have the opportunity to use this core knowledge to develop your own project idea. In the middle phase of the course, you will experiment creatively in an area of your choice, having the chance to negotiate assessment modes from a range of options including audio, video and exhibition modes. This individual exploration is complemented by collaborative, participatory workshops in which you will be able to perform in/co-produce/co-design projects conceived by other students. Focussed entirely on your own performance project, the final phase of the programme allows you to apply ideas and skills encountered in the previous modules to produce and analytically frame an original piece of immersive performance.



MODULE STRUCTURE


Immersive and Participatory Storytelling (20 credits): This module provides an introductory overview of how different strands of immersive performance—including site-responsive, promenade, one-to-one, game-based, audio-driven, task-based, virtual and augmented reality—have evolved thus far. It also considers the ways in which sensory engagement can unlock memory and fuel uniquely personal stories.



Immersive Performance Lab (20 credits): Complementing the survey of various kinds of immersive/participatory storytelling and of research methodologies, this module provides a flexible space in which the student experiments with technologies or modes they may be less familiar with and/or wish to explore further before they flesh out their own project ideas. The exploratory process is assessed through a fortnightly journal and a summative oral reflection.



Research Methodologies and Proposal (20 credits): This module examines the critical frameworks used in discourse about immersive performance. Students explore the merits and limitations of different methodologies and are guided through the process of applying these methodologies to develop a project proposal.



Immersive Performance Portfolio (30 credits): Immersive Performance Portfolio looks at how particular media—including audio recording, video recording, physical installation and social media platforms—have been and might be used in the making and documentation of immersive performance. Each student chooses a social issue/cultural phenomenon on which to focus and responds creatively to this chosen theme.



Collaborative Workshop (30 credits): This module invites students to work together to create a new piece of participatory performance, informed by examples of collaboration between performers, visual designers, sound artists, writers, creative producers and others in the work of companies such as Shunt, Blast Theory, dreamthinkspeak, Sound&Fury, Colab, ANU, Republic of the Imagination, and Punchdrunk. It provides a space for each student on the course to engage in supporting one another as individual practitioners, helping to develop and produce each other’s projects.



Immersive Performance Project (60 credits): Fuelled by the theoretical enquiry and practical exploration on the previous modules, this is a summative, practice-as-research space in which you design, produce, document and theoretically frame a piece of immersive performance.



TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT


MA Immersive Theatre is taught via: presentations by staff and by guests; creative lab sessions; practice-as-research workshops; roundtable seminars; tutorial surgeries. Assessment on the programme is through, and is designed to enhance each student’s analytical and documentary skills in, written, aural, visual, and workshop modes of presentation. Built into the module structure is the facility for students, as they progress through the programme, to tailor modes of assessment to their individual interests and needs.



LOCATION


The Drama department has three dedicated buildings for its wide range of performances, workshops and classes: the Joe H Makin Drama Centre which houses rehearsal rooms, workshops, a 90-seat studio theatre and two smaller, studio performance spaces; the John Foster Drama Studio, a large, newly refurbished, flexible theatre space adjacent to the Modular Building which houses classes/tutorials, the department’s wardrobe, Drama staff offices, postgraduate common room and dedicated study rooms/practical studios. All three are designed to offer space and creative freedom to students studying on one of LJMU's many drama undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The buildings regularly play host to in-house student drama festivals, practical assessments, classes and visiting workshops. Facilities in Liverpool School of Art and Design include specialist VR, AR and MR capture and display technologies and headsets, green screen studios and projection mapping. All the above buildings are conveniently close to LJMU’s Aldham Robarts Library, which contains all the resources you will require for your studies, and is open 24-hours a day, seven days a week.





STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS



Having devised, directed and mentored site-responsive events over two decades, JAMES FRIEZE became interested in the framing of immersive theatre, especially the language and rhetoric used to promote and critique immersive work. He is the editor of Reframing Immersive Theatre: the Politics and Pragmatics of Participatory Performance and author of several essays on immersive performance. His monographs, Theatrical Performance and the Forensic Turn and Naming Theatre, examine theatre’s relationship to cultural notions of truth.



During and since the practice and research that led to her PhD in immersive theatre, TERI HOWSON-GRIFFITHS has worked extensively on immersive applications of arts and health practices directed toward individual and community well-being. Alongside her teaching and facilitation, she is a respected voice on the therapeutic potential of immersive performance.



As well as being an innovative teacher of immersive theatre, SARAH HOGARTH is Creative Director of All Things Considered, who continue to produce critically acclaimed, intimate, socially engaged immersive events such as Pram Talks, Sleepover and Control 25.



EMPLOYABILITY



LJMU has an excellent employability record with 96% (HESA 2017) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.



This degree is aimed at preparing graduates for creative, managerial and technical roles in arts, educational and commercial sectors. Successful and motivated graduates of the programme will also receive opportunities to progress to PhD study.






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