Recent Practical Projects
- A Portrait of the Artist (2016)
- Paradise Moscow (2015)
- The Threepenny Opera (2014)
- After Ovid (2013)
- Getting Nowhere (2012)
- Goodnight Gertrude (2011)
- Wonderful Town (2010)
- Tristram Shandy (2009)
The annual Practical Project is run at the beginning of each academic year. It involves all new first year students along with other undergraduates and visiting students, and is essentially a large-scale music theatre production involving an intensive five-week rehearsal period, culminating in several public performances in the University's Concert Series.
The Practical Project is led by a different member of staff each year and often reflects their own research interests. Over recent years it has varied from a traditionally-staged musical or opera, to a newly-devised music theatre piece, sometimes with a laptop orchestra thrown in for good measure!