Dr Claire Cochrane

Senior Lecturer in Drama

Claire Cochrane’s teaching and research interests range widely. She is the author of two books on the Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Shakespeare and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre 1913-1929 and Birmingham Rep: A City’s Theatre 1962-2002 and is currently working on a book on twentieth century British theatre practice for Cambridge University Press which focuses on regional theatre and the relationship with London. She also writes on the development of contemporary Black British and British Asian theatre. While she teaches a broad range of modules, she is responsible for specialist modules in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama in performance and medieval theatre. For public performance modules she has directed modern plays such as Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale and Renaissance plays such as Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi and All’s Well that Ends Well. She is the co-coordinator of the departmental research strategy and is the Course Leader for the Performance Studies MA.

Contact

Institute of Humanities and Creative Arts
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester, WR2 6AJ
Tel: 01905 855452
c.cochrane@worc.ac.uk

Dr Claire Cochrane