Drama & Theatre Studies (DTS) at U.C.C.
University College Cork is situated on the west side of Cork City. Founded in 1845, U.C.C. has over 11,000 students, about a fifth of whom are postgraduates. In 1986 an MA in European Theatre was launched, which has since become the MA in Drama & Theatre Studies. In 2001 the joint honours BA in Drama & Theatre Studies (CK112) was launched.

Postgradute Degrees offered by DTS include a one year MA and a Research M.Phil/PhD programme. Please contact the DTS administrator at s.hopcraft@ucc.ie for details or fill out our form on the contact page.

PERFORUM
U.C.C. Drama & Theatre Studies Public Seminar Series, in association with the Granary Theatre. Wednesdays Granary Theatre Studio U.C.C.
6 - 7.30pm Free Event - No booking required.

DTS at UCC now offers M.Phil/PhD programme, which includes the option of research through practice, which is the first of its kind in the Irish Republic. Please contact the DTS administrator at s.hopcraft@ucc.ie for details or fill out our form on the contact page.

Application deadline for MA in Drama & Theatre Studies 2008 has now passed. Late applications may still be considered.

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Announcing SCENARIO, a new Applied Drama and Theatre Journal

SCENARIO is a bilingual (English - German), fully peer-reviewed on-line journal which is aimed at scholars, teachers, theatre professionals and drama- and theatre-in-education specialists. The journal's main focus is on the role of drama and theatre in the teaching and learning of foreign / second languages, including the literature and culture associated with these languages (for further details see: http://scenario.ucc.ie).

The first issue which, coinciding with the launch, is coming out also on March 15th includes nine contributions from various perspectives - three Irish, three German, two US-American, and one Mexican - featuring drama-based approaches to the teaching and learning of both German and English as a Foreign Language.

The editors, Dr. Manfred Schewe (Department of German/Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC) and Dr. Susanne Even (Department of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington), would be delighted to welcome staff and students to this event. The launch celebrations will include an introduction by Dr. Ger Fitzgibbon, Director, Board of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC and a brief demonstration of the online publication project by the editors.

Click here to visit SCENARIO

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• Dr. Ger FitzGibbon (Drama Theatre Studies chair & English Department)
  Ger FitzGibbon, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, is Chair of the Board of Drama & Theatre Studies and was the initiator of the move to introduce Drama & Theatre Studies to U.C.C. at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. He has been involved in establishing professional theatre in Cork. He is a founder member and former Chair of Graffiti Theatre Company - the country's premiere TIE company. His main areas of teaching in DTS are text analysis, dramaturgy, theatre history and contemporary Irish and British theatre. He has written a number of plays, was co-editor of Theatre Talk: Conversations with Irish Theatre Practitioners (Carysfort Press, Dublin 2001) and has recently published articles on the role of the Fay brothers in the founding of the Abbey Theatre, and on Brian Friel. He is currently developing work on the Irish playwright Sebastian Barry.
  
  g.fitzgibbon@ucc.ie
  
  
• Dr. Franc Chamberlain (Drama & Theatre Studies)
  Franc Chamberlain teaches the practice and theory of theatre at undergraduate and post-graduate level and has a particular interest in devising and the development of the actor /performer as a creative artist. He has published a monograph, Michael Chekhov (Routledge, 2003), and other papers on Chekhov, as well as essays on Jacques Lecoq and Eugenio Barba. More recent publications include contributions to Sacred Theatre (ed. Yarrow, Intellect 2007) and Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader (ed. Keefe & Murray, Routledge, 2007). Franc has recently prepared a new edition of Edward Gordon Craig’s On the Art of the Theatre and co-edited A Decroux Sourcebook (both Routledge) with Thomas Leabhart. A former editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and Contemporary Theatre Studies, he is currently the editor of Routledge Performance Practitioners. Since arriving in Cork in September 2005, he has performed a solo show, Interruptions, and produced three devised shows, Telling (2006), My Love…? (2006), and Beatrice (2007), as well as Lorca’s The Public (2005), Beckett’s Come and Go (2008) and Rame/Fo’s Female Parts (2008). Franc Chamberlain is also a Visiting Professor in Performance Studies and Creative Practice at the University of Northampton, UK.
  
  f.chamberlain@ucc.ie
  
  
• Dr. Bernadette Sweeney (Drama & Theatre Studies)
  Bernadette Sweeney is a graduate of the School of Drama, Film and Music, Trinity College Dublin, where she completed her doctoral research Performing the Body in Irish Theatre; published by Palgrave Macmillan (2008). Teaching and research include performance practice and theory, gender and performance, Irish theatre, movement and voice, performance practice as research, research skills and performance documentation and photography. She programmes the DTS seminar series Perforum with DTS colleagues: guests have included Druid, CoisCeim, and Beckett publisher John Calder.

  While at UCC she has directed a number of projects including Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, with colleague Bernadette Cronin and, in 2005, she collaborated with Jools Gilson-Ellis (half/angel dance theatre) to direct student participation in the site-specific piece The White Quadrangle for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture. Her photographic documentation of performance was exhibited at the Gluckman Gallery as part of the exhibition Visual Practices Across the University, curated by James Elkins in 2005. She was visiting faculty at the dept of Drama/Dance University of Montana in 2006, where she directed Synge’s Riders to the Sea.

  She is a member of the executive committee of the Irish Society for Theatre Research. She is currently editing a collection on Tom Mac Intyre for Carysfort Press. Other projects in development include a publication on Irish live art with Franc Chamberlain, a project on interdisciplinarity and performance with Jools Gilson-Ellis and a performance project on Irish emigration with Stalker physical theatre company, Sydney.
  
  b.sweeney@ucc.ie
  
  
• Bernadette Cronin (Dept. of German & DTS)
  MA (UCC) Textual comparison of Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina and the film script adaptation by Elfriede Jelinek. ALAM (Acting Diploma - London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art). Diploma in Translation (Institute of Linguists). Currently pursuing a Doctorate at the University of Exeter on Free Theatre Companies in Vienna and Graz. Ongoing involvement in amateur and professional theatre production with an emphasis on experimental theatre. She performed in The Beckett Project in the Granary Theatre, UCC, in May 2004, as directed by Philip Zarrilli.
  
  
b.cronin@ucc.ie


• Dr Róisín O’Gorman (Drama and Theatre Studies)
  Róisín O’Gorman completed her dissertation, “Untitled: Senses of Performance in the work of Marina Carr, Dorothy Cross and Ana Mendieta” at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2007. Her current research examines performance as an interdisciplinary epistemology. Other areas of interest include: theatre historiography; dramatic literature, theory and criticism; Contemporary and late twentieth century theatre and performance and intermedia art; intersections between visual art and performance; Feminism and performance; Irish Studies; Post-Colonialism and Feminism; Pedagogy and Performance.
  
  r.ogorman@ucc.ie
  
  
• Siobhan Keane Hopcraft (DTS)
  Drama & Theatre Studies Administrator
  
  s.hopcraft@ucc.ie

DTS Board Members

• Stephen Boyd MA (St And.) (Department of Hispanic Studies & DTS)
  Teaches: Spanish Drama of the Golden Age, especially Lope de Vega and Calderón. Also the theatre of Federico García Lorca (1898-1936).
  
  
• Dr. Gert Hofmann (Dept of German & DTS)
  Teaches German Literature and Philosophy in the Department of German. He studied German Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sociology, Politology, Art History, and Education at the universities of Würzburg, Vienna, and Münster; State Exam (Münster), Dr. Phil. (Würzburg); previously Part Time Lecturer at the University of Würzburg, Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Seoul, and at the University of Hannover. His major research interests include anthropology and aesthetics of the tragic, performance theory, critical theory. He recently authored a book on the Ästhetik der Ohnmacht (aesthetics of non-power).
  
  
• Marian McCarthy (Dept of Education & DTS)
  Marian McCarthy teaches in the Education Department at UCC and has a special interest in the Arts in Education, particularly Drama in Education. She has directed several theses in this area for the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, as part of her work on the Board of Drama and Theatre Studies. She has given workshops nationally and internationally on drama as a methodology in the enhancement of student learning. She draws in particular on Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences and on the Teaching for Understanding framework advocated in the work of the Project Zero Team at Harvard, to ground her thinking on the arts and education. As well as teaching on several courses in the Higher Diploma in Education and on the Masters in Education programme in her own department, she is involved in developing teaching and learning within UCC, providing support in the areas of Mentoring and theories of Teaching and Learning, as part of initiatives in professional development for UCC staff. She won the President's award for Teaching Excellence in 2002.
  
  
• Dr. Mary Noonan (Dept of French & DTS)
  Teaches French literature in the Department of French, and French theatre to students of Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC. Education: BA, MA, English (UCC); MA, French (Birkbeck College, University of London); PhD, French Drama (Royal Holloway, University of London). PhD Thesis (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001): 'The Audio-Vocal Membranes of Feminine Theatre: Voice and Auditory Experience in the Drama of Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute and Hélène Cixous'. Fields of Research: Modern and contemporary French theatre; voice and the auditory; theories of performance; theatre practice; the work of women playwrights; psychoanalysis and theatre; French feminist theory. Recent theatre practice: Directing: Come and Go, Krapp's Last Tape, Play (Samuel Beckett), L'Émission de télévision (Michel Vinaver), The Chairs (Eugène Ionesco).
  
  
• Dr. Manfred Schewe (Dept of German & DTS)
  Teaching and Research interests of Manfred Schewe, Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of German, include: German/Austrian/Swiss Drama and Theatre of the 20th and 21st centuries; Community Theatre; Drama and Theatre Pedagogy in the teaching and learning of language, literature and culture. He has widely published in the area of drama-based teaching and learning (for details click here). His primary interest in research and teaching has been to develop holistic approaches to the teaching and learning of language, literature and culture by building bridges between different but complementary disciplines: German Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies, Education, Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Literature Studies and Intercultural Studies. He was involved in a major European research project, Theatre Work in Social Fields (2003-2005) and is the founder and co-editor of SCENARIO, a new bilingual (German-English) Applied Drama and Theatre journal. He is coordinator of the Applied Drama and Theatre strand of UCC’s MA in Drama and Theatre Studies. Together with Stephen Boyd (Department of Hispanic Studies, UCC), he is currently working on a translation and adaptation of Das Einsiedler Welttheater, a play by leading Swiss writer Thomas Hürlimann. It is envisaged that the translated text form the basis for a large-scale community theatre project, culminating in a performance on UCC’s campus in 2009 or 2010.
  
  For further information regarding Manfred Schewe’s bio-data click here bio-data .
  
  m.schewe@ucc.ie

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• Andy Crook (Freelance)
  Andy Crook is a free-lance actor, director and physical-theatre tutor and practitioner. He trained at the L'École Jaques Lecoq in Paris and has worked as physical theatre tutor and director at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Manchester as well as at UCC. He is artistic director of Dublin-based company Articulate Anatomy. At UCC he teaches physical theatre, mask work, directed second year students in a devised production Foodstuff, 2003, and MA students in Out of Caesar, 2005. He performed in The Beckett Project in the Granary Theatre, UCC, in May 2004, as directed by Philip Zarrilli.

• Dr. Carolyn Duggan MA in Drama and Theatre Studies (UCC).
  Thesis: Performer-influence on form in 19th century pantomime. PhD (UCC). Thesis: mobilisation in the political plays of Zakes Mda. Licentiate and Fellowship Diplomas, Trinity College of Music, London, in drama teaching and performance. Involved in Cork professional theatre as a director and an actor, Cal also runs her own theatre company, Thinking Image. Cal is Senior Tutor in the English Department, and teaches theatre history to DTS undergraduates and contributes to the Research Skills module at MA level.
  
  c.duggan@ucc.ie

• Dr. Jools Gilson-Ellis (Dept of English & DTS)
  Jools Gilson-Ellis is a writer, choreographer, performer and installation artist. She is co-director (with Richard Povall) of the performance production company half/angel. Her work is focused on developing provocative poetic spaces in different performance platforms, using writing and voice. half/angel develops projects involving new technologies, sound environments, poetic text and performance. Gilson-Ellis holds a practice-based PhD in Theatre & Performance Studies from the University of Surrey. At UCC Jools has taught theatre practice - including improvisation, devising, voice and writing for performance. She has also taught gender and performance, performance art, performance and technology and site specific performance. In 2005 half/angel produced two major projects for Cork 2005: European Capital of Culture: The White Quadrangle and The Knitting Map.

• Kath Geraghty (Granary Theatre & DTS)
  Kath trained in Lighting and Sound at Oldham College and in English and Politics at Manchester Polytechnic. She is Technical Manager at the Granary Theatre and responsible for all the technical aspects of the shows and the venue. Prior to moving to Cork she worked extensively in the UK at venues such as The Lyric in London's West End, The Bristol New Vic Studio, Hampstead Theatre, Bolton Octagon, Orange Tree Richmond, The Tobacco Factory Bristol and many others. She spent seven years at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where she worked extensively with playwrights such as Alan Ayckbourn, John Godber and Olivier Award winning Tim Firth on many world premiers, tours and West End transfers. Recent work includes lighting design for Pondlife Angels (Asylum Productions & the Midsummer Festival at Granary), We Shall Sing for the Fatherland (Thinking Image Theatre Company), Once Upon a Barstool (Granary & Everyman Palace Studio), set construction for FOWL (Granary), production management for Platform Artists at Granary, Oh Lover Boy at the Crawford Gallery, Franko B's Why are you here? (Aktion 893) at Granary and Aideen Barry's Storm Rider at the Lough. Kath has taught at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Hull University. She teaches courses on technical theatre for Drama & Theatre Studies at U.C.C.

• Orla Murphy (English Dept. U.C.C.)
  Orla Murphy is head tutor for Old and Middle English. She also teaches Research Skills and how to use existing and emerging technologies in thesis research to incoming postgraduates. Research Interests: Anglo-Saxon Homiletic Literature / Liturgy as a context for homiletic production / Orality, Memory and Literacy / Art and Architecture as contexts for understanding Old English Literature /The use of emerging technologies in research and pedagogy. Orla Murphy was part of the Research Project Text and Image an element of the HEA funded Documents of Ireland Project. At present she is a member of the research project team Foundations of Irish Culture in collaboration with NUIG. Orla is currently pursuing a phd in 'Reading certain medieval inscribed stones'.
  
  o.murphy@ucc.ie

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