Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre

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Resource Text: Book
Title Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre
Creator Contributors
Abstract/Description Unsettling Space investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. The book is shaped by three specific representations of space: monuments, contaminated places, and borders. Covering a wide range of plays, and offering a highly original theoretical framework for analyzing drama, this study will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.
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Publisher Palgrave, MacMillan, Basingstoke
Publisher Location New York
Date Issued 2006
Language English
Medium Hardback; Paper
Extent 196pp
ISBN 10 1-4039-8562-6
ISSN 9781403985620
Citation Joanne Tompkins, Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre, Palgrave, MacMillan, Basingstoke, New York, 2006
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 941