Research Areas
Central has active research clusters in the following areas. Academics use these clusters to share ideas, develop collaborative projects, and disseminate their findings:
- Bodies and Culture
- Documentation and Archiving
- New Techniques in Contemporary Theatre
- Sonic Dramaturgies
- Space and Performance.
Areas of staff research at Central include the following:
- actor training
- dance
- devising and creative processes
- digital, telematic and mixed-media production
- drama therapy
- dramaturgy
- light and sound design
- movement direction
- music(al) theatre
- participatory performance
- puppetry
- regimes of the body
- scenography
- site-specific performance
- social and political theatres
- theatre history
- theatre for development
- verbatim and witness testimony
- voice.

