Unsettling Space
Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2006
XII, 204 pages
978-0-230-28624-5 (ISBN)
Description
This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. Covering a wide range of plays it will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.
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JOANNE TOMPKINS is Associate Professor/Reader at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her books include
Post-colonial Theatre
(with Helen Gilbert) and
Women's Intercultural Performance
(with Julie Holledge). While co-editing
Modern Drama
, she co-edited
Modern Drama: Defining the Field
with Ric Knowles and W.B. Worthen. She develops virtual reality models of theatres for research and practical applications.
Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Coordinates Mapping Australian Space in Theatre Monuments Contamination The Borders of Identity Conclusion: Haunted Pasts and Methektic Futures Works Cited Index
