Theatre Futures is the digital gateway to Theatre and Performance Research at Rose Bruford College.

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


    The Rokeya Project - visit to India

    Source: Community Outreach | Julian Bryant | 10 Mar 2010

    Rose Bruford College is breaking new ground again. It is supporting a visit to three universities and a school in Kolkata by a graduate company, taking workshops based on a production they wrote and developed.“Rokeya’s Dream” was developed in association with Tara Arts, and describes three young women discovering a visionary text by [...]

    Urban Scrawl: an unforgettable feast for the imagination in 2009

    Source: Knowledge Transfer | Micaela Chappell | 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 [...]