About CPR

LOCATED IN WALES, working nationally and internationally

The Centre for Performance Research (CPR) is a pioneering and multi-faceted theatre organisation located and rooted in Wales, working nationally and internationally. CPR produces innovative performance work: arranges workshops, conferences, lectures and masterclasses (for the professional, the amateur and the curious); curates and produces festivals, expositions and exchanges with theatre companies from around the world; publishes and distributes theatre books, as well as the journal Performance Research, and houses a resource centre and library that specializes in world theatre and performance and maintains an archive on contemporary Welsh performance.

CPR aims to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and practice of theatre in its broadest sense, to affect change through investigation, sharing and discovery and to make this process as widely available as possible. Its programmes of work combine cultural co-operation, collaboration and exchange practical training, education and research, performance, production and promotion, documentation and publishing, information and resource.

The Centre for Performance Research (CPR) was established in Cardiff in 1988, by Richard Gough and Judie Christie. CPR's predecessor was Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, which began in 1974.

The Centre for Performance Research at Aberystwyth is a joint venture of Aberystwyth University and Centre for Performance Research Ltd, working in close association with AU Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies: www.aber.ac.uk/en/tfts/

Mae’r Centre for Performance Research yn Aberystwyth yn fenter ar y cyd rhwng Prifysgol Aberystwyth a Centre for Performance Research Cyf, yn gweithio’n glòs ar y cyd ag Adran Astudiaethau Theatr, Ffilm a Theledu PCA: www.aber.ac.uk/en/tfts/

Centre for Performance Research Ltd is an Educational Charity (No. 701544) limited by guarantee (Reg. No. 231 5790).

Mae Centre for Performance Research Cyf yn gweithio gyda nawdd Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru ac mae’n Elusen Addysgiadol (Rhif 701544) gyfyngedig gan warant (Rhif Cof. 231 5790).