Editorial: Autumn Term 2 2023-24

With pencils freshly sharpened, timetables drawn up and new satchels given their first outing, we're back to school. As new courses launch at drama schools around the country, it's an exciting time to be teaching Drama and pointing students in different directions for further study. This issue, I visited Rose Bruford to find out more about its pioneering new MA in Queer Performance. While drag, cabaret and queer art has enjoyed a long and illustrious history, it's rewarding to see academia finally recognise its role beyond the fringe theatre scene.

Elsewhere this issue, Dan Clay explores Birmingham University's new project with the RSC aiming to make Shakespeare's work more accessible in deaf schools; our assistant editor Hattie Fisk chats to the team behind The House With Chicken Legs, the new production from the brilliantly inventive Les Enfants Terribles; and Laura Clark goes to see Ockham's Razor's Tess, a feminist retelling of Thomas Hardy's tragic novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles.