For applications received by
Monday 06 June 2011
there will be a round of selection interviews on
Saturday 25 June 2011
A further round of selection interviews may be held for applications received after 06 June; contact us for more details
If you have questions about the Programme you should email
Programme Administrator, Penny Luker-Brown: p.luker-brown@bbk.ac.uk
or
Programme Director, Andrew McKinnon: a.mckinnon@bbk.ac.uk
Enquiries in writing to
Andrew McKinnon
Birkbeck, University of London
Department of English and Humanities
Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HX
Please include a contact ’phone number in your email or letter.
Thursday 24 March 2011
SPRING TERM 2011 - DETAILS
The MACP Spring Term includes Unit Four – ‘The Producer and People’, and Unit Five – ‘The Producer and Research’. Both these Units run throughout the whole term, which lasts eleven weeks.
Unit Four – ‘The Producer and People’
The emphasis shifts this term to focus more on each student’s possible personal interests and projects, following on from the work of the Unit Three Assessment and the GfA application they drafted for that assessment. Students are expected to think about and develop personal creative ideas. The work of Unit Four covers a wide range of potential areas of work, breaking down broadly into ‘artists and creative teams’ and ‘communities and audiences’. Classes covered aspects of both these areas over the term. Unit Four is taught on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Unit Five – ‘The Producer and Research’
Unit Five consists of an individually chosen MA Option from a list offered annually (it changes every year). Each Unit Five Option is taught and run by a different member of BBK staff. This year, MACP students have taken options in playwriting, screenwriting, language and linguistics, aesthetics and cultural theory, memory and trauma. For Unit Five, students attend a class on one weekday evening, depending on their choice of subject.
Spring Term Programme of Classes and Events
The Spring Term began with a class and discussion led by Andrew McKinnon, concentrating on the Unit Three assessment (delivered by students in the early weeks of the term), which centres on the preparation of a complete ‘Grants for the Arts’ application by each student.
This term also we looked in particular detail at the work and structures of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East; members of the senior staff who came to talk to us and discuss key issues were Ali Campbell (General Manager), Charlotte Handel (Head of TRSE’s ‘Open Stage’ project), Alix Hearn (Head of Marketing), Mary Caws (Executive Director) and Kerry Michael (Artistic Director and Chief Executive).
Later in the term Andrew McKinnon gave several classes on some key marketing and audience relationship issues within the ACE framework.
Experienced guest practitioners who took interactive sessions included
•Tim Jones (Executive Director of ‘motiroti’)
•Jonathan Kennedy (Executive Director of 'TARA Arts')
•Tara Wilkinson (Executive Producer, 'Paines Plough')
•Melanie Abrahams (Director, 'Tilt' and 'Renaissance One')
Specialist tutors included
•Jackie Elliman, Legal Officer, ITC (Employment Law)
•Neil Laidlaw, commercial producer (‘Marketing on no Money’)
•Dr Fleur Rothschild (sessions on academic writing and structuring)
•Simon Pittman, Forced Entertainment (Devised Theatre)
•Chris Mellor, Camden's Senior Arts Development Officer, with James Norris, social media strategist ('Social Media in Marketing')
•Paschale Straiton: Street Theatre
In addition, Lyn Gardner gave a class on writing a high-profile review for The Guardian, based on Enda Walsh’s ‘Penelope’ at the Hampstead Theatre
Some classes this term were held jointly with the MFA Theatre Directing students.
This term there were also opportunities for MACP students to attend
•the DEVOTED & DISGRUNTLED conference
•‘Penelope’ by Enda Walsh at the Hampstead Theatre
•the understudy run of 'When We Are Married' at the Garrick Theatre
•the Dress Rehearsal of ‘The Mikado’ at ENO
..... and several students were last-minute guests of Bill Kenwright Ltd at the press night of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the London Palladium ..... many thanks to Julius Green at BKL (Julius makes a welcome return to the MA next term to teach another series of classes).
The first class of the summer term will take place on Wednesday 27 April.
Unit Four – ‘The Producer and People’
The emphasis shifts this term to focus more on each student’s possible personal interests and projects, following on from the work of the Unit Three Assessment and the GfA application they drafted for that assessment. Students are expected to think about and develop personal creative ideas. The work of Unit Four covers a wide range of potential areas of work, breaking down broadly into ‘artists and creative teams’ and ‘communities and audiences’. Classes covered aspects of both these areas over the term. Unit Four is taught on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
Unit Five – ‘The Producer and Research’
Unit Five consists of an individually chosen MA Option from a list offered annually (it changes every year). Each Unit Five Option is taught and run by a different member of BBK staff. This year, MACP students have taken options in playwriting, screenwriting, language and linguistics, aesthetics and cultural theory, memory and trauma. For Unit Five, students attend a class on one weekday evening, depending on their choice of subject.
Spring Term Programme of Classes and Events
The Spring Term began with a class and discussion led by Andrew McKinnon, concentrating on the Unit Three assessment (delivered by students in the early weeks of the term), which centres on the preparation of a complete ‘Grants for the Arts’ application by each student.
This term also we looked in particular detail at the work and structures of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East; members of the senior staff who came to talk to us and discuss key issues were Ali Campbell (General Manager), Charlotte Handel (Head of TRSE’s ‘Open Stage’ project), Alix Hearn (Head of Marketing), Mary Caws (Executive Director) and Kerry Michael (Artistic Director and Chief Executive).
Later in the term Andrew McKinnon gave several classes on some key marketing and audience relationship issues within the ACE framework.
Experienced guest practitioners who took interactive sessions included
•Tim Jones (Executive Director of ‘motiroti’)
•Jonathan Kennedy (Executive Director of 'TARA Arts')
•Tara Wilkinson (Executive Producer, 'Paines Plough')
•Melanie Abrahams (Director, 'Tilt' and 'Renaissance One')
Specialist tutors included
•Jackie Elliman, Legal Officer, ITC (Employment Law)
•Neil Laidlaw, commercial producer (‘Marketing on no Money’)
•Dr Fleur Rothschild (sessions on academic writing and structuring)
•Simon Pittman, Forced Entertainment (Devised Theatre)
•Chris Mellor, Camden's Senior Arts Development Officer, with James Norris, social media strategist ('Social Media in Marketing')
•Paschale Straiton: Street Theatre
In addition, Lyn Gardner gave a class on writing a high-profile review for The Guardian, based on Enda Walsh’s ‘Penelope’ at the Hampstead Theatre
Some classes this term were held jointly with the MFA Theatre Directing students.
This term there were also opportunities for MACP students to attend
•the DEVOTED & DISGRUNTLED conference
•‘Penelope’ by Enda Walsh at the Hampstead Theatre
•the understudy run of 'When We Are Married' at the Garrick Theatre
•the Dress Rehearsal of ‘The Mikado’ at ENO
..... and several students were last-minute guests of Bill Kenwright Ltd at the press night of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the London Palladium ..... many thanks to Julius Green at BKL (Julius makes a welcome return to the MA next term to teach another series of classes).
The first class of the summer term will take place on Wednesday 27 April.
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