Welcome to the Applicant Activity Hub for the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance!
Welcome to the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance. We have put together these resources to help you get to know us before joining us in September, and to get ready for your studies.
Below you will find a range of different suggestions for reading, viewing and thinking. We hope you enjoy them and they offer you some inspiration during the summer. We look forward to welcoming you at Royal Holloway very soon!
Finally, if you're joining us via an integrated foundation year, as well as everything below you may also find this page interesting - which has got information and activities specifically to do with the foundation year.
Read on: any of the short books in the Theatre & … series published by Bloomsbury. Theatre & Audience by Helen Freshwater would be particularly useful. These books are written with a first year University readership in mind.
- Tune in: to a selection of performance work from recent years.
- Try this: see as much performance – theatre, dance, music, film, video etc. – over the summer.
- Just ask: chat with our current students and staff.
- Keep in touch: follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
- Be prepared: visit the Applicant Hub.
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Watch Finalists' Festival performances from 2021 on YouTube.
Listen to Dr. María Estrada Fuentes in a panel discussion on Embodied Care work with vulnerable communities, specifically with those affected by violent conflict-dynamics in Colombia. Also hear a podcast where Dr. María Estrada Fuentes, among others, discussed the gendered and performative dimensions of peacebuilding in Colombia http://ordersindecay.com/colombia-a-gendered-reintegration/
Watch award-winning RH alumni theatre company By Jove present The Gentlest Work: a digital installation exploring queerness, trauma, and joy in the myths surrounding Aeschylus' Greek tragic trilogy the Oresteia. Collecting together responses to these myths by the company's international team of artists, The Gentlest Work includes dozens of videos, images, audio clips, and fragments of text that explore the queerness in these stories and in the artists' own lives. The Gentlest Work will premiere in June 2021; you can find out more on By Jove's website here: www.byjovetheatre.org
Tune in to Professor Dan Rebellato’s You & Me (an experimental #MeToo play) aired on Radio 4 in January 2021) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qwtb. Also, tune in to Professor Dan Rebellato's Killer (an adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's play), aired on Radio 3 in April 2021. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk/killer
