Theatre Studies at SETU
This page is managed by Dr Úna Kealy, Dr Kate McCarthy & Deirdre Grant. Views our own. This page introduces Theatre Studies on the BA (Hons.)
Arts programme at South East Technological University. The course introduces students to the practice and performance of theatre as well as to the academic study of the area. Students will study major plays from Ireland and abroad but also will have the opportunity to participate in workshops where they can act, direct, and produce their own work as well as the work of major playwrights. Contact u
22/07/2024
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👉Professional Fellowship with CreativeIrl & Fulbright Ireland
🗣️Creative Ireland partners with the Fulbright Commission to support one creative professional for an exciting opportunity in the US every year.
📋https://www.performingartsforum.ie/opportunity/creative-ireland-fulbright-professional-fellowship/
🖥 There is a webinar on 26 August 1.00 – 2.00pm to explain this exciting opportunity. Sign up now!
🧠https://www.fulbright.ie/coming-to-ireland/us-scholar-awards/fulbright-creative-ireland-professional-fellowship/
25/06/2024
Wonderful to see our friend, Susie Lamb showcasing her work-in-progress in Waterford city next Tuesday night, 6pm 2nd July at A Little Room. Susie worked on the Theatre Studies programme in 2021/22 leading the Irish National Theatre Module. The Waiting, which will be performed in Project Theatre, Dublin, in February 2025, is an immersive performance installation fusing spoken word, original piano composition and movement. See here for more info...
A Little Room presents The Waiting - Garter Lane Susie has worked as a performer in theatre for 25 years and also works across disciplines of dance, writing and singing. She lives in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
16/06/2024
02/06/2024
Happy 40th Birthday to all Garter Lane Arts Centre! Garter Lane Arts Centre Studios was a fantastic setting for a big celebration of collaboration, community, creativity, and conversation! Thanks so much to Síle Penkert, Deirdre Dwyer, and all the team for cake in the sun and an uplifting day for the arts in
07/05/2024
SETU Theatre Studies presents Stop/Over by Gary Duggan, an amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. Presented by third year SETU Theatre Studies students, Janice Lacharmante and Liam Hickey, Duggan's work explores the complex dynamics of relationships at key moments in our lives and the impulses that make us leave or stay. The audience is invited to take their seat on the stage and follow F and M through a whistle-stop tour of New York City.
Tickets are free, but booking is necessary: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/setu-theatre-studies-presents-stopover-by-gary-duggan-tickets-895557977017
26/04/2024
Super work from 1st, 2nd & 3rd year students today—including 2nd year students. We began in the worlds of and before travelling to a fantastical world (inspired by & ) . Well done to everyone and massive thanks to .deirdre & Helena Walsh-Kiely for their creativity, collaboration, and good company, and to Úna Kealy, Sharon Coady, our extern Finola Cronin, and all the team for their support.
24/04/2024
Year 1 students present their end-of-semester work this Friday: an exploration of ’s ‘The King of Spain’s Daughter’.
19/04/2024
This Friday’s Job Opportunity!!
CALL OUT FOR ARTISTS AND CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS
TEACHER ARTIST PARTNERSHIP+ 2024/25
📍 Fully paid training to support artists and creative practitioners to work in primary and special schools
📍 Funded 20-hour residencies in the school year 2024/25
📍 Bringing learning into practice through creative partnership with teachers and children
📆 Closing: 7th June 2024
TIPPERARY PRACTITIONERS
As there is no local centre; please apply to the nearest of the following four centres:
• Limerick: [email protected]
• Kilkenny: [email protected]
• Laois: [email protected]
• Waterford: [email protected]
Further info: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14MecsKHUgc0g2GRFWkaP73WNG6c6ys2M/view?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1ywjjMVii1yGyq212yEi-6b_NUsi5lzQJO2cCVSN-iZPx10N2ZFOz3-A0_aem_ASUISFkofkVdD6ngpiXeFzrqQ-lLn-4QclcZ-0dax9U9CqCipwuSOFoTyQtgLklYVOFBLKVyJmVVO83uxq_j83Le
19/04/2024
One for this Saturday night! At the lovely Wexford Arts Centre. 🎭❤️
This weekend - The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey
A new one-man show written and performed by Mikel Murfi. Following on from The Man in the Woman’s Shoes, I Hear You and Rejoice, this new piece, the third in the series, finishes out Pat Farnon’s journey in a most unexpected way. Having married Kitsy Rainey late in life, cobbler, Pat Farnon finally decides to lift the lid on a life previously lived by his wife. And all the while Pat faces down his own reckoning. Tender, heartfelt and joyously funny.
📅 Saturday 20th April
⌚️ 8pm
💻 wexfordartscentre.ie
☎ 0539123764
The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey is a third collaboration between Sligo County Council Arts Service, the Hawk's Well Theatre Sligo, and Mikel Murfi. Additional support for The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey was provided by Irish Arts Center, New York.
16/04/2024
16/04/2024
16/04/2024
Brainstorming a social media campaign for The Everyday Fantastic performance by the 2rd Yr Theatre studies/ Visual art students in Monday’s Resourcing the Arts module with Deirdre Grant. Some excellent ideas devised by the students for the performance on April 26th at 4:15 in Waterford Gallery Of Art. You can follow the event setu_theeverydayfantastic_2024
13/04/2024
Super masterclass with .macavinta as part of the Dance Project, focusing on coastal communities & sustainability. Huge thanks to the EU Conexus project team, course leader, Erin MacNamara Cullen, HoD Susan Flynn, and .deirdre for bringing us all into Studio 1 What a day of openness, connection, warmth, generosity of spirit, and community, magnificently led by .macavinta with much support from our wonderful team member, .deirdre. We are sending our movement phrase to Croatia, with ❤️
10/04/2024
27/03/2024
Want to learn more about Theatre Forum, and its transition to Performing Arts Forum? Then please come along to a seminar this afternoon (Wednesday 27th March), from 3 to 4.00pm, with Irma McLoughlin (interim director at Theatre Forum) who will be in conversation with Kate McCarthy about Theatre Forum, the arts sector, the opportunities and challenges of current practice and structures, and the new connections that are possible. Tickets for this online seminar are free, and please book using the link below. All welcome!
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/irishsocietyfortheatreresearch/1203955
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/irishsocietyfortheatreresearch/1203955
Registration – ISTR Webinar: Where Connection Creates Change – Zoom Webinar Title: "Where Connection Creates Change" Speaker: Irma McLoughlin Chaired by Dr. Kate McCarthy Theatre Forum is about ...
20/03/2024
Gathering in solidarity with Palestine across three campuses today. It was moving and important to share the space with students, staff, and a postgraduate student from Gaza who is studying at SETU.
18/03/2024
Thrilled to see Natasha Everitt, Theatre
studies graduate, pictured on the paper as part of the wonderful Spraoi, Waterford company. Huge congrats to all on the wonderful work on show in and .
15/03/2024
Happy birthday Lady Gregory 🎂
Co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, Lady Augusta Gregory was once described by George Bernard Shaw as “the greatest living Irishwoman”. In 1904, the intention of a national theatre in Ireland was “to bring upon the stage the deeper emotions of Ireland”. 120 years later, we are proud to honour her legacy with the 🙏 Read more about this ambitious body 👉 https://bit.ly/3NBcahn
10/03/2024
Thrilled to be supporting our colleague, Helena Walsh-Kiely, who plays Mary in John McDwyer’s ‘Turning Mammy’ produced by the Moondharrig Players at the Parish Hall, Mooncoin.
Garter Lane Arts Centre Your home for the arts in Waterford - book on www.garterlane.ie or 051-855038
04/03/2024
AIC Scheme Info Session: 6th March 2024 - Create Twice yearly, the Arts Council offers Artist in the Community Scheme grants to enable artists and communities of place/or interest to work together on projects. The scheme is managed by Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. The scheme is open to artists from any of the foll...
03/03/2024
We want Disrupt to be a Disability Arts Festival that reaches those who cannot be present in person. This is why we are delighted to be able to offer Disrupt: online.
A number of our events will be available to stream online:
- Festival Opening Party - 7th March
- Opening Performance: Lazarus Lingua by Suzanne Walsh - 7th March
- Dis-Gender; Disability and Gender Identity performance - 8th March
- Embodiment; Disability and the body in art performance - 9th March
- Disconnect: Festival Closing party - 9th March
- Shaping Disrupt Webinar - 11th March
It is free to access Disrupt online and you can book at: https://buff.ly/3SQEoXi
Please note: all comments on our event live-streams will be monitored.
Image description: Pink border with text that reads Online Access at disrupt and has small symbol of a computer. The text in the image is the same as the above caption text detailing which events can be watched online.
Disrupt Disability Arts Festival is funded and supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Festivals Investment Scheme, Dublin City Council, Project Arts Centre and RTÉ Supporting the Arts.
29/02/2024
Great opportunity for a visual artist—maybe someone also exploring Live Art as part of their practice!
We're a bit excited about this one...
We're partnering with our wonderful friends in Sacred Heart Family Resource Centre to offer a paid six month community residency to a visual artist (five hours per week).
If you're a visual artist who is passionate and experienced in working with people from all sorts of backgrounds to unlock their creative potential, we want to hear from you!
Send your CV to [email protected] by 8th March at 4pm to express your interest in this opportunity.
28/02/2024
Huge congrats to Kassie O'Mahoney, who is studying Theatre Studies, English, and Religious Studies & Theology as part of the BA (Hons.) Arts at South East Technological University. Kassie played Cecily Cardew in Waterford Dramatic Society's (WDS) 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Garter Lane Arts Centre last year. Past Theatre Studies student, Bryan Costello, also featured in this production, playing Lane with aplomb!
Kassie was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress in an Amateur Drama category. The production won three awards at the Waterford News and Star Green Room Awards last Sunday night, including: Best Female Performance in an Amateur Drama (congrats to Denise Quinn); Best Director in an Amateur Drama (congratulations to Frieda Ryan); and, Best Amateur Drama (congrats to ALL)!
Image is of Kassie holding the Best Amateur Drama award! Woo hoo!
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Theatre Studies is offered as a subject as part of the BA (Hons.) Arts programme at Waterford Institute of Technology. The course introduces students to drama and theatre practice, as well as to the academic study of the field. There are three streams involved in the programme: practical, theoretical, and applied. Students will study a diverse range of texts, and will have many opportunities to participate in workshops where they can perform, direct, devise, and produce their own work. In the applied stream, students learn about: the practicalities of producing theatre and acquiring funding, ways of using drama and theatre to bring about social change, and how to develop as a professional. Please contact [email protected] or [email protected] for further details.
Alongside lectures, seminars, and tutorials, the course offers students the opportunity to work within a “studio” environment. The course builds on strong partnerships with local and regional theatre groups who have all lent their support to the development. Students are offered many opportunities to become involved in performances that are often assessed as part of their core work. Productions and recent collaborations include: ‘The Eugene O’Neill Festival’ (2020); Mount Prospect (2018, Garter Lane Arts Centre); The Shakespeare Review (2018, Theatre Royal); Wife to James Whelan (2016, Garter Lane Arts Centre), and When Silence Falls (2016, Waterford Memories Project). Students are also offered opportunities to participate in workshops with guest workshop leaders, academic seminars, podcasts, rehearsed play readings, and research projects. Theatre trips, post-show discussions, and guest lectures are offered across each academic year.
Students of Theatre Studies also take other subjects as part of their degree. This introduces students to other disciplines and ways of thinking and there is a strong emphasis in WIT on encouraging dialogue between subject areas (for example, see student work on waterfordmemories.com). Students also take a number of important modules in critical and creative thinking and research skills. The kinds of skills developed through these types of modules in particular form the foundation for future years and are highly valued by employers.
Students will find at WIT a supportive and stimulating study environment where discussion and debate are valued and encouraged. Staff are welcoming and friendly and their approach to teaching is dynamic and enjoyable. For more information, see Theatre Studies at WIT on FaceBook and Instagram, and theatrestudies@wit on Twitter.
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