Dr Croft has worked as a director, dramaturg, workshop leader and Lecturer in Creative and Performance Arts. In 1986 she founded the New Playwrights Trust. In 1993 she was appointed Senior Research Fellow in Performing Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, and in 1996 she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to pursue her research on […]
Dr Nick Hunt’s mixed media essay, The Operator Connects, which describes his research investigation into the role of the theatre lighting operator, went online in early December 2013 at www.passages-project.org.uk The practical investigation took place through a research-performance Passages. The Operator Connects is in part a critical reflection on this investigation, and comprises a collection of inter-related mini-essays in video, […]
The Dead Fiddler and The Destruction of Kreshev, two actor musician productions by associate company Sacred and Profane Theatre Company, adapted from short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed at the Edinburgh and Camden Festivals and London venues, 2006-2013.
Encounters with Kantor, led by Andrzej and Teresa Welminski, practitioners based at Cricot 2 Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, resulting in two devised pieces Traumatikon and Pages from the book of, both performed by graduates and students of the European Theatre Arts Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Summerhall venue, and by invitation at […]
The Clive Barker Centre for Theatrical Innovation, in partnership with The Stanislavski Centre and The Rose Bruford Centre for Voice and Speech present.. THEATRE OF CATASTROPHE A Weekend with Howard Barker and The Wrestling School Rose Bruford College is excited to welcome Britain’s most brilliantly innovative playwright, Howard Barker, and his company The Wrestling School […]
Born in Kingston Jamaica, Yvonne Brewster came to the UK to study speech, drama and mime at the Rose Bruford College and the Royal Academy of Music. She was a pupil of Marcel Marceau. Subsequently she returned to Jamaica where she taught drama and produced and presented her own shows on radio and television. Yvonne […]
Eugenio Barba gathered a group of young people who had not passed their admission test to Oslo’s State Theatre School, and created the Odin Teatret on 1 October 1964.[2] The group trained and rehearsed in an air raid shelter. Their first production, Ornitofilene, by the Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe, was performed in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. They were subsequently […]
Professor Jones is Director of Research at Rose Bruford College. Formerly Reader in Theatre Arts and Head of Drama at Goldsmith, University of London. Nesta came to the College as Head of Graduate Studies in 2001, leading the MA in Theatre Practices until 2008, since when she has focussed on her role as Director of […]
The College’s Research Centre for Multicultural and Intercultural Performance is delighted to be collaborating with the Kala Chethena Kathakali Company as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded research project: We Are What We Wear This historical project, kindly supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund [London], was instigated by Kathakali make up and costume specialist, Kalamandalam […]
Taste of Memory a project, developed by Pan Intercultural Arts in partnership with RBC and SOAS Food Studies Centre, exploring the changing food heritage of Britain through the eyes of young Londoners from across the world, funded by Heritage Lottery and AB Charitable Trust, 2010-2011.