About
This course engages students with theatre and activism, community-building, and social justice. Equipping them to think about, make, perform, direct, produce and facilitate across theatre practices, including contemporary performance, festivals, spoken word, installations, devised and applied work.
Please note: we are not accepting applications for this course. Visit our undergraduate courses page for the full list of courses currently open for application.
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What students study
Theatre and Social Change BA (Hons) combines practical theatre-making skills with project design and implementation, understanding of cultural, social and creative context, writing proposals, fundraising, marketing and communications. Industry placements, case studies and ongoing input from professional practitioners and cultural activists play a major role in the course.
Course overview
Programme Director
Lehni Lamide Davies is an Artist, Creative Facilitator, and Producer who primarily works on socially engaged performances, films, installations, exhibitions and participatory arts projects across various contexts and communities including care homes, schools, parks, shopping centres, festivals, theatres, galleries, cultural institutions and museums. Her creative practice is rooted in creating Empathic Spaces to uncover intimate narratives around race, identity, wellbeing and interconnectedness, bringing transformative stories to life that are uncovered, nurtured, celebrated and archived.
Her films and installations have been presented at the Manchester Film Festival, Dulwich Festival, The Whitgift Centre Croydon, NY Independent Film Festival, Galapagos Arts (NY & Detroit) and The Public Theatre NY.