Internship Tutorial Overview

Internship Tutorials will offer students the opportunity to meet with each other and a member of faculty in order to reflect upon their internship experience. Since your London placement is an academic course, in addition to performing a role in a British organization, you must also meet a number of academic requirements to successfully complete the placement. During your Tutorial you will be required to produce coursework related to your internship. The quality of your work on these requirements will account for most of your final grade.

The Internship Tutorials will meet on three occasions; the first meeting near the last Core class, the second meeting during week nine, and the third meeting during week twelve.

Course Objectives

The objective will be to relate the experience of the internship to the Core Class CFA DR443 Experiencing London Theatre: in the Postwar World. In other words, to show knowledge of the overall picture of contemporary British theatre in London; to understand a broad range of the major developments in British drama over the past 60 years; to relate drama to broad changes in British society; to examine the work of specific writers and directors in detail; to stimulate critical analysis through written work and discussion; to understand the role of the Arts Council and state subsidy of the performing arts. The ultimate aim is to demonstrate an awareness of British theatre, and an insight into how it is organised and why it has developed in its present form. 

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Internship Placements

Theatre Studies
Study the various aspects of the theatre industry in one of the most vibrant theatre scenes of the world. Students have the unique opportunity to combine coursework with hands-on experience in a full-time field placement in the visual and performing arts. Previous internship placements have included the Royal Court, the Almeida Theatre, the Finborough Theatre, and Stage Entertainment.

Course Comments

"Aleks Sierz was a great professor, very intelligent and British (all that, that implies!). Hilarious!" Anon., Fall 2008 

Faculty Information

Dr Aleks Sierz holds a first-class honours degree in Politics and Modern History from Manchester University, an MA in Arts Criticism from City University, London, and a PhD from Westminster University. He has spent all his working life in the fields of academia and journalism. He is currently the theatre critic of Tribune and The Stage. He is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College and has previously taught at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at Westminster University. He is also a freelance arts journalist for The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Telegraph. He is a former Hon Sec of the Drama Section of the Critics' Circle, and the proud author of the bestselling In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today (Faber, 2001), The theatre of Martin Crimp (Methuen Drama, 2006) and, most recently, John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (Continuum, 2008).

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