The Symposium

The College’s annual Symposium provides a platform for the initiation, development and dissemination of research. For a week in the Spring there is a pause in formal teaching for workshops, ‘in conversations’, demonstrations, presentations, rehearsed readings, ‘work in progress’, panels, forums, encounters, installations, exhibitions, screenings, and live performance in many forms to take place. Staff and students are joined by alumni and graduate companies; associate artists, researchers and scholars, visiting professors and fellows; local, regional, national and international partners; and distinguished guests from the theatre community.

The Symposium is linked with specific college-wide student and faculty research projects. These have included Theatre Memory, Soundings: Innovation In and Reflection On Music Theatre, Many Voices, and most recently, The Festival Adventure, which explored the notion of ‘festival’ with particular emphasis on celebrating diversity and building communities.

Symposia:

1999: On Acting

2000: On Brecht

2002: Theatre Memory

2003: Soundings: innovations in and reflections on Music Theatre

2004: Other Voices

2005: Many Voices

2006: Many Voices Too

2007: Universal Voices

2008: The Festival Adventure

2009: Further Festival Adventures

2010: Come Together Festival

2011: Towards a Cultural Olympiad

2012: The Big Rich Mix