Playwriting & Dramaturgy (MA)

All students take core modules in playwriting and dramaturgy. Students then can choose optional modules that address a diverse range of specialised topics in the field of performance, directing, theatre business, applied theatre, theatre history, archival research and more. 

After classes conclude, students work on the completion of a new play or piece of writing for performance with a mentor in the profession.  This work will receive a public staged reading in early summer at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. 

A key aspect of the course is the preparation of candidates for success upon graduation: we provide advice on submitting plays for production or other forms of writing for publication. Regular workshops with writers form a key part of the course.

Subjects in this course are:-

• Required DT6104: Portfolio
• Required DT6130: Critical Methods in Drama, Theatre and Performance
• Required DT6123: Playwright's Workshop I
• Required DT6133: Playwrights' Workshop II: Special Topics
• Required DT6113: Applied Dramaturgy
• Optional DT6102: Irish Drama and Theatre from Wilde to O'Casey
• Optional EN6118: Digital Literature, Arts, and Creative Practice
• Optional DT6127: Producing 1
• Optional DT6131: Curation 1
• Optional DT6101: Irish Drama and Theatre from Beckett to the Present
• Optional DT6109: Applied Theatre
• Optional DT6108: Exploring Michael Chekhov Technique
• Optional DT6120: Ensemble Acting and Devising
• Optional EN6136: Thinking about Books/Thinking about Theatre
• Optional DT6121: Fieldwork And Theatre Business
• Optional DT6122: Performance Lab