Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency

ISBN-13: 9780367407841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 140 str.

Charlotte Farrell

Opis

This book examines select Australian theatre productions by director, Barrie Kosky. This text contextualizes the director’s early theatrical practice within its Australian theatre milieu.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.