Colston Research Society: Conference on New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis

Abstract

In 1997, the University of Bristol Drama Department will be fifty years old. It was the first department of its kind in the United Kingdom and has played a leading role in establishing Theatre, Film and Television Studies at British universities. Since then, geographic horizons have widened with Theatre Studies becoming a university subject in Mrica, Asia, the Pacific Rim and Latin-America. Over the last fifty years, many new departments of Drama or Theatre Studies have been founded, all of them contributing towards developing a methodology of the discipline.