Introduction

From 2025-26, the didactic final year is no longer offered. Students who were enrolled before 2025 may re-enroll and have two years to complete the program (2025-26 and 2026-27).  Students re-enrolling in 2026-27 who have not obtained their diploma by the end of 2026-27 will have the academic year 2027-28 to validate the missing teaching units. If the diploma is not obtained in 2027-28, students will continue their studies in a Section 4 Master's degree in teaching.

More information on the transition program: https://uclouvain.be/fr/facultes/fial/elal/programmes-de-transition.html

The study programme for the Master’s degree is organised around three main elements:

• dialogue on the Western theatrical tradition;
• dialogue on the academic disciplines which analyse theatrical creation;
• dialogue on theatrical practice, in the form of workshops and work placements in a professional environment.

Your profile

You

• are passionate about the theatre and everything related to the performing arts;
• wish, without being an actor, to join a profession related to theatrical creation : playwright, theatre critic, public relations officer, organiser, teacher, manager, theatre director;
• are looking for a university training which will bring enrichment, whether you are an actor, producer, designers, teacher of French and theatre, psychologist, occupational therapist or researcher, etc.
   

Your programme

The Master’s degree offers you

• a complete overview of the phenomenon that is theatre;
• knowledge and skills in the critical analysis of theatrical creation and the performing arts;
• the ability to use research tools and fundamental concepts to help you, in a personal way, in what you do now or will do in the future;
• theoretical training accompanied by practical work, workshops and work placements supervised in a professional environment;
• a pluridisciplinary approach.