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...