The UNIMA Research Commission with Cork Puppetry Festival, Drama and Theatre Studies - UCC, and Mary Immaculate College, is delighted to announce a two-day symposium exploring the ways puppetry intersects with disability and health.

The Department of Drama & Theatre Studies is pleased to introduce a new Higher Diploma in Arts (Theatre and Performative Practices) in the academic year 2017/18. 

The Higher Diploma in Arts (Theatre & Performative Practices) is a conversion course to Theatre-related studies for students with degrees in subjects other than Theatre or with Theatre as a minor subject. Completion of the Higher Diploma in Theatre & Performative Practices effectively converts your degree to the equivalent of an honours degree with Theatre as the main subject. 
It is designed for non-theatre graduates who wish to upskill, gain an additional qualification in the area of Theatre & Performative Practices which will pave the way to further study at MA or PhD level.

Practice-as-research at the intersection between embodied practice and theory.

19th & 20th June in Drama & Theatre Studies, UCC

Next weekend the 25th - 28th May sees the second SCENARIO Forum Conference entitled 'Performative Spaces in Language, Literature and Cultural Education'. Celebrating 10 years of SCENARIO Forum Journal this Conference welcomes over 100 speakers and workshop leaders from four continents and eighteen countries to explore the potential of performative spaces in relation to different content areas, genres, themes and approaches. 

Drama and Theatre Studies Students at their annual visit to the Abbey Theatre for a casting/audition workshop. 

Samuel Beckett: Other Archives

22^nd March: Professor David Pattie, Professor of Drama at the University of Chester

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Running 8th - 11th March in the Granary Theatre

Tickets €10/5

FOREGROUNDS 2017 showcases the theatre-making talents of final year single and joint honours students in Drama & Theatre Studies at UCC.

A theatre evening in two parts, FOREGROUNDS 2017 presents 21^st Century adaptations of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, The Tain, Orpheus and Eurydice, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ by Oscar Wilde and a piece of documentary film adapted from the real life experience of a lung transpantee.

Staging Beckett's Prose

15th February: Gare St Lazare Ireland in conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson (TCD)

In conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson, Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Ireland will discuss their work on staging Beckett’s prose. There will be a special focus on their current work in development on Beckett’s prose piece How it is (1964).

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

On every hour there will be a 30' video follow by a 10' art/sound installation. Also during the entire duration of the event there will be an exhibition of images/videos and a solo durational dance performance (6 hours) where audience are free to stay as long as they wish. Free entrance. This is part of Inma Pavons PhD. All welcome.

PERFORUM: AUTUMN 2016

Regina Crowley

23^rd November

The Sigh of Relief

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Sounding the Actor’s Bodymind: Contemporary Perspectives on Voice and Performance