Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre - Hardcover

by Joanne Tompkins (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.