
Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage
Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency
Charlotte Farrell(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-1-032-07662-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.
Now a prolific opera director in Europe, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia. This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including The Dybbuk which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991, as well as King Lear (1998), The Lost Echo (2006), and Women of Troy (2008).
Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed, the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with - and radical departure from - classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students, particularly those with interests in affect, contemporary performance, 'director's theatre', and tragedy, will benefit from Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage's vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim.
Now a prolific opera director in Europe, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia. This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including The Dybbuk which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991, as well as King Lear (1998), The Lost Echo (2006), and Women of Troy (2008).
Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed, the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with - and radical departure from - classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students, particularly those with interests in affect, contemporary performance, 'director's theatre', and tragedy, will benefit from Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage's vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen, 10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
245 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-07662-1 (9781032076621)
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Person
Charlotte Farrell is a theatre and performance studies scholar. She holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Farrell has taught at both UNSW and in the Dramatic Literature program at New York University.
Content
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; "Where the Imagination Can Run Riot": Introducing Barrie Kosky, Affect, and Post-Tragedy; 1. Contextualizing Barrie Kosky in Contemporary Australian Theatre; 2. "Exciting and Raw, Sweaty and Nightmarish": Affect and The Real in The Dybbuk; 3. Barrie Kosky's King Lear: A Post-Tragedy; 4. The Lost Echo: Rethinking (Post-)Tragic Catharsis as Emergency; 5. Women of Troy: Post-Tragic Spectatorship, Allegory, and Violence; Conclusion: Barrie Kosky's Theatre of Post-Tragic Affects; Index