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

Welcome to Theatre Futures

Theatre Futures represents 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

    Upcoming projects

    Source: Community Outreach | Julian Bryant | 13 May 2009

    Outreach is busy organising five projects for the summer: School and college visits associated with the Poetic Theatre projectBexley 14-19 creative diploma “Performance Icons” project“Meltdown 3″ performance installation, with UEL and University of the ArtsArts Award  Gold project for Shoreditch Festival, with Oval House, sipported by Arts Council England.Disability arts summer schoolAlso, a welcome to Sam Kay, [...]

    Michael Chekhov - Problem Child of Stanislavsky?

    Source: The Stanislavski Centre | Paul Fryer | 18 Mar 2009

    Professor Jonathan Pitches, Chair in Theatre and Performance, School of Performance and Cultural Industries University of LeedsWednesday 18th March at 5.00 p.m. - Room C101In this illustrated talk Professor Pitches introduced the work of Michael Chekhov, drawing specifically on his time at Dartington in the mid-late 1930s. He outlined some of the philosophical and practical [...]

    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 [...]