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This is the page for the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Goldsmiths is all about the freedom to experiment, to think differently, to be an individual.

07/05/2026

TAP OUT '26 is almost here!

A festival of original performance works by Goldsmiths UoL, BA Drama and Theatre Arts finalists.

TAP OUT 26 is a constellation of contemporary performance making, marking the culmination of three years of thinking and making within Goldsmiths, Theatre and Performance. It marks the final steps in our UG journey, and at the same time our first steps as we begin to map out our paths beyond Goldsmiths.

WEEK 1:

Cadon Richards: A Night of Silhouettes

Peekaboo: Advancia

Kunti: Body Archives

The Trauma Troopers: The Memory Box

Rupert Doyle: The Interview

Jade Barnes: Bea

WEEK 2:

Luke Hipkin: Song of the Siren

Birong Ding: A Quarter

Glance: Calling to Say...

Rupert Doyle: The Interview

Jade Barnes: Bea

🎟️TICKETS🎟️
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tap-out-26-tickets-1988632231537

22/04/2026

Goldsmiths Musical Theatre proudly presents our graduating class in '70, Girls, 70'.

When they learn their retirement home is due for the wrecking ball, some feisty old folks resort to stealing and reselling furs.

Book by Fred Ebb and Norman L. Martin
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb

Performance Dates:

Friday, 1st of May, 19:00, Company A

Saturday, 2nd of May, 14:00, Company B

Saturday, 2nd of May, 19:00, Company A

Tuesday, 5th of May, 19:00, Company B

Wednesday, 6th of May, 19:00, Company B

Thursday, 7th of May, 14:00, Company A

Friday, 8th of May, 19:00, Company A

Saturday, 9th of May, 17:00, Company B

**Programmes are only available via pre-order on Eventbrite.

🎟️TICKETS🎟️
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/70-girls-70-goldsmiths-uol-musical-theatre-tickets-1987493446400?keep_tld=true

03/03/2026

Être et jouer, Workshop at Goldsmiths University of London

Research project on modes of performing
April 8th – April 18th 2026

Directed by Laurent Berger and Juan Navarro

In the live arts, the body is the primary tool, and it is essential to continue inventing new ways of using it. The body is also an invitation to participation and experience, and it is at this point that experience becomes intertwined with embodied knowledge and the decision to make it public — performative, ultimately.

Since we began developing the research project Être et jouer together and other collaborators, our driving obsession in shaping the research laboratories has been to break away from established scenic knowledge and its methodologies, in order to actively promote the notion of Not-Knowing articulated by Georges Bataille as a catalyst for enriching the performing arts, their morphology, and new approaches to creation.

This research space is an invitation to generate performative content both individually and collectively. The instructions or working premises for the practices will emerge from a core theme that will respond to the participants' profiles and allow us to exchange ideas on contemporary modes of creation and interpretation.

Alongside a strong commitment to the practical aspects of the performer’s work (voice, body, improvisation, performance) and interdisciplinary (theatre, dance, performance), we will also share a space for theoretical reflection on what has taken place, with the aim of rethinking tools, vocabularies, and and enable new dynamics and methodologies for the creation of live arts.

In this context, we will investigate the abyss that at times opens between form and theory, creating a space for reflection on the different scenic languages operating within this new digital era.

If you would like to participate, please apply by sending your CV to [email protected] and [email protected]

03/06/2025

New Blog Post!!

In an interview for Staging Decadence, MA Performance Making Alumn, Runxuan Yang, discusses her ‘Vase Girl’ act, inspired by a magic trick in Chinese travelling circuses. Expect rumination on foot binding, ‘ornamentalism’, and the cultural politics of refinement.

https://www.stagingdecadence.com/blog/runxuan-yang

19/05/2025

ANNOUNCING:
MA Dramaturgy and Writing For Stage Showcase
13/06/25, 2pm
Stay tuned for further announcements ⚡️

29/01/2025

ALUMNI NEWS:

You Me Bum Bum Train, Interview with The Guardian:

“Tickets for the interactive theatre company’s last show are almost impossible to score, though if you get one there’s a chance you’ll have your mind blown. But what exactly is it? The creators reveal what they can”

The Guardian
You Me Bum Bum Train

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/28/kate-bond-morgan-llyod-interview-you-me-bum-bum-train

02/01/2024

'excellent, ground-breaking theatre projects from Goldsmiths graduates - Mojisola Adebayo and Rebecca Frecknall, recognised in The Guardian's 'best' listings', 📸Marc Brenner, LINK TO ARTICLES IN BIO

17/11/2023

ALUMNUS NEWS:

Alumni Tom Powell from the MA Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance has just won Best Film at the Broadstairs International Film Festival for

The Silence and the Noise. The production company are now making it entirely free to watch again and the link is in our bio!!

Congratulations Tom 🥳🎬

https://pentabus.co.uk/silence-noise

12/09/2023

ALMUNUS NEWS:

GoldsmithsTaP and Jamil Luzuriaga Velasquez wish to invite you to 'Platonics Live!' and the chance to explore philosophical concepts in a multi-lingual musical play that features a puppet of the philosopher Plato.

More about the show:

Platonics Live! is a thought-provoking play with live music that presents Plato’s philosophical ideas in a playful and humorous way. The show seeks to explore the multiple caves in which we find ourselves and how we can move between these spaces, learning and sharing in a non-dogmatic way.

The play unfolds with Lawra and Lowri preparing a multilingual, musical show featuring a puppet of Plato. Although they see him as a superstar of ideas, the philosopher fears he has been misinterpreted and forgotten. Overcome with stage fright he is unable to sing or speak, leaving Lawra and Lowri in charge of his famous allegory of the cave. Through story-telling, music and object theatre we are immersed in a reimagined version of the allegory where Spanish, Quechua, Welsh and English weave together to form new narratives. Plato's allegory undergoes a transformative twist and unexpected situations shake the characters’ perceptions of reality.

Platonics Live! will be at Applecart Arts Theatre in Newham on September 22nd, 23rd and 24th.

TICKETS IN BIO

21/07/2023

Summer 2020, NYC. Roommates Kaitlyn and Frances, months into the pandemic lockdowns, escape onto their rooftop, trying to hold the pieces of their friendship – and sanity – together. Finding distraction in the tales of Carla Horowitz, a Women's Airforce Service Pilot during WWII and the subject of Kaitlyn's thesis, the two confront uncomfortable present-day truths through their immersion in the past.

⏰Aug 14-26
💰£10/£8/£7
🎭
📍 Edinburgh Fringe theSpaceUK @ Symposium Hall Annexe
🎫 https://www.infinitevarietynyc.org/pretending-to-fly

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SE146NW

Telephone

+442079197414

Website

http://www.gold.ac.uk/theatre-performance/

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