The department specialises in practice research research, as well as critical and creative collaborations with theatre-makers and artists.
Through engaging in a variety of creative and critical collaborations, work in the department explores actor-training and directing methodologies; Live Art practice; theatre for young audiences; and immersive, interactive and participatory practices. This is framed by an engagement with the theorisations and methodologies of practice research and performance documentation.
![Dr Joanna Bucknall](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/bucknell-joanna-2018-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Lecturer
- Immersive, interactive & participatory performance practices
- One-on-one performance
- Practice research methodologies
- Performance documentation
- Performing heritage & legacy
- Gamification & play in performance
![Dr Claire French](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/french-claire-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Assistant Professor in Performance and Creative Practices
I am new to the department, teaching across theory and practice and leading the new MA in Performance Practices: Applied Artists. My specialisms include applied, autobiographical and multilingual performance practices. I am currently most connected to South African theatre and performance artists and activists, articulating new dramaturgies and frameworks for sustainable global collaboration. ...
![Professor Adam J. Ledger](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/ledger-adam-315-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Professor of Theatre and Performance
- Performance practice, especially acting/performer and directing methodologies
- Devising
- The Odin Teatret
- Performance and the environment (especially climate change)
- Practice research
![Dr Pablo Pakula](/images/college-artslaw-only/staff/drama/dr-pablo-pakula-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Teaching Fellow
- Postdramatic theatre
- Devising
- Autobiographical performance
- Live art practices
- Practice as research
- Dramaturgy
![Dr Caroline Radcliffe](/images/college-artslaw-only/drama/landingpage/drama-ug-open-day-cropped-230x230.jpg?quality=80&height=230)
Reader in Drama and Performance
- Victorian theatre
- Performance practice (contemporary and historical)
- Popular theatre and performance
- All areas of theatre and music
- Technologies and performance