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3.5 Prescribed practitioners

For Component 2 students must select a practitioner from the list below.

For Component 3 students must select a different practitioner from the same list.

Practitioner
Active
Broad approach or role
Mike Alfreds
Contemporary
Actor centred/truth in performance
Antonin Artaud
Early 20
th
century
Theatre of Cruelty
Steven Berkoff
Contemporary
Expressionism/physical theatre
Alecky Blythe
Contemporary
Verbatim theatre maker
Augusto Boal
Late 20
th
century
Theatre of the Oppressed
Bertolt Brecht
Early 20
th
century
Political/epic theatre
Peter Brook
Contemporary
Wide spectrum of approaches
Bruiser Theatre Company
Contemporary
Physical/actor orientated
Alison Chitty
Contemporary
Costume and set designer
Complicite
Contemporary
Physical theatre
Paule Constable
Contemporary
Lighting designer
Gordon Craig
Early 20
th
century
Designer
Bob Crowley
Contemporary
Costume and set designer
DV8
Contemporary
Physical/verbatim theatre/multimedia
Declan Donnellan
Contemporary
Director
Gregory Doran
Contemporary
Director
Eclipse
Contemporary
Black-led company
Marianne Elliott
Contemporary
Director
Polly Findlay
Contemporary
Director
Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Contemporary
Political/comic theatre
Forkbeard Fantasy
Contemporary
Multimedia
Frantic Assembly
Contemporary
Physical theatre
Gareth Fry
Contemporary
Sound designer
Gecko
Contemporary
Stylised/physical theatre
John Godber
Contemporary
Political comedy
Rupert Goold
Contemporary
Director
Graeae Theatre Company
Contemporary
Performers with disabilities
Jerzy Grotowski
Mid 20
th
century
Poor theatre
Handspring Puppet Company
Contemporary
Puppetry
Headlong
Contemporary
Innovative ensemble theatre
Nicholas Hytner
Contemporary
Director
Nicholas Kent
Contemporary
Verbatim theatre
Kneehigh Theatre
Contemporary
Multi-disciplined/storytelling/physical theatre
Ralph Koltai
Late 20
th
century
Designer
Mike Leigh
Contemporary
Character based devising
Phyllida Lloyd
Contemporary
Director
David Mamet
Contemporary
Director
John McGrath
Mid 20
th
century
Socio-political/site specific theatre
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Early 20
th
century
Constructivism
Bill Mitchell
Contemporary
Site specific theatre, set and costume designer
Katie Mitchell
Contemporary
Naturalism/multimedia
John Napier
Contemporary
Sets and costume designer
Rufus Norris
Contemporary
Director
Out of Joint/Joint Stock
Contemporary
Political/ensemble
Richard Pilbrow
Mid 20
th
century
Lighting
Tom Piper
Contemporary
Designer
Mic Pool
Contemporary
Sound designer
Propeller
Contemporary
All male company
Punchdrunk
Contemporary
Immersive theatre
Emma Rice
Contemporary
Multi disciplined/storytelling/physical theatre
Malcolm Rippeth
Contemporary
Lighting designer
Josie Rourke
Contemporary
Director
Shared Experience
Contemporary
Expressionism
Rae Smith
Contemporary
Set and costume designer
Max Stafford-Clark
Contemporary
Political/ensemble theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski
Late 19
th
, early 20
th
century
Naturalism
Talawa
Contemporary
Black-led company
Tamasha
Contemporary
Multiculturalism in Britain/British Asian influences
Julie Taymor
Contemporary
Director, set and costume designer
Theatre Alibi
Contemporary
Storytelling theatre
The Paper Birds
Contemporary
Devising theatre company
Polka Theatre
Contemporary
Children’s theatre
Deborah Warner
Contemporary
Director
1927
Contemporary
Multimedia