Department of Theatre, UCC

UCC’s Department of Theatre is unique in Ireland, and among the most distinct in the world.

Here at UCC Theatre, we believe in the artistic power of our students. Our students don’t just learn to take direction. They become independent thinkers, makers of work, and arts entrepreneurs who can think outside the box.

They are adventurers. Our teaching encourages students to explore, to expand, and to refine their skills, knowledge, tastes, and critical thinking. Our students devise.

UCC’s heritage as a top global university, and its courageous stance toward the future, form the perfect integrated backdrop for how we teach and research, and for how students navigate their time with us. We delight in all forms of theatre, and our teaching explores how theatre and performance, indeed, how the mind and body working together, when daring to tell stories in new and fabulous ways, invent new futures for us all.