Applied Theatre and Education

It encompasses theatre practices with young people with care experience, wellbeing, prison settings, schools, older communities, working with refugees, and with people with disabilities. This unique course situates you within Derby Theatre, a professional producing theatre, and includes specialised Education modules. Students can select from various modules focusing on understanding contexts, emotional intelligence, addressing future challenges, and driving education transformations. The course emphasises reflexivity, positionality, skill development, knowledge exchange, and evaluating innovation to improve education policy and practice. Students, academics and artists work, create and learn side by side at Derby Theatre. All decisions about the development of both the art and the learning opportunities are made together. At every stage, there is huge potential in the crucible of the arts, learning and research combining to both underpin and inform our future work. Derby Theatre provides an extraordinary platform for real life learning to take place, not only through the exciting main stage and studio programmes, but also through the work that the Theatre does with young people, young people in care, emerging artists and the community. Graduates of the programme can also be supported by our Artist Development Programme, In Good Company, which is part of a large regional funding programme.