Research Office website with information on past and present College-wide research activities.
Professional facilities, services and courses for anyone working in the theatre and the creative industries.
Our work in partnership with schools, colleges and theatre companies.
Welcome to Theatre Futures
Theatre Futures houses Rose Bruford College’s expanding performance research culture. The site is split into three main sections (Knowledge Transfer, Community Outreach and Research Resources) reflecting all areas of research in the College. Browse our ‘live’ repository of work to find information on past and present research activity with both academic and industry-oriented output.
Discover some of the exciting resources that the College has to offer to alumni and professional theatre practitioners through its funding and development section, Knowledge Transfer. You can also gain insight into our educational and professional outreach work on the Community Outreach section of the site.
Our Research Resources section contains some exciting project-specific work as well as information on past research-related events such as symposia, conferences and seminars.
Rose Bruford College is a specialist College internationally known for its pioneering work in developing degree-level training in all aspects of professional theatre and theatre-related arts. For more information on degree programmes and courses please visit the college’s main website.
Latest content on Theatre Futures
Creative Way research on progression
Source: Community Outreach | Julian Bryant | 18 Mar 2010
Creative Way have just published a short video on YouTube, which was the outcome of joint research between Lewisham College and Rose Bruford College. We’ve embedded it onto the website: click on the link above.The research looks into issues of widening participation and social capital.An Actor’s Work on a Role, by Professor Jean Benedetti (Hon Patron of The Stanislavski Centre)
Source: The Stanislavski Centre | Paul Fryer | 11 Mar 2010
In the last 10 years of his life Stanislavski started writing two books in which he intended to summarise a three-year course of actor-training based on the ’system’:1. An Actor’s Work on Himself. The first two years.2. An Actor’s Work on a Role. The third year.The first is concerned with the basic training [...]Urban Scrawl: an unforgettable feast for the imagination in 2009
Source: Knowledge Transfer | | 17 Dec 2008
A revolution in online drama contentUrban Scrawl is an unprecedented drama experiment that promises to change the landscape of creative endeavour online. A project of this magnitude has never been attempted before. If successful it will throw down the gauntlet to Britain’s major theatre institutions like the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court [...]New Writing in Britain: How Do We Define the Contemporary?
Source: The Sidcup Papers | Aleks Sierz | 17 Dec 2008
By Aleks SierzParody is a literary genre that always means so much more than it says.I’d like to start by talking about one example of parody, a book by Christopher Douglas and Nigel Planer called I An Actor (written under the pseudonym of Nicholas Craig), which is a work of fiction, a satire on British [...]PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES
