Humanities and Social Sciences

Theatre and Drama Program

Research

Mr Geoffrey Milne

Australian Theatre and Drama since the 1950's, Community Theatre in Australia, Puppetry in Australia, Theatre for Young People in Australia

Current Projects:

Editing Australasian Drama Studies Journal, AusStage - National electronic database of performing arts in Australia, Australian drama portraying refugees and asylum-seekers

Ms Meredith Rogers

Directing for the theatre, Performance practice and theory

Current Projects:

Co-convening the 2007 Conference of ADSA (the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies). Conference title: "EXTREME STATES: Issues of Scale—political, performative, emotional", Co-editing a special issue of Australian Drama Studies -"On Lineages, Techniques, Traditions and Training", The Chair in Contemporary Theatre/Performance Practice

Professor Peta Tait

Performing emotions and their social meanings, Physical theatre and performance, Gender identity and Australian theatre and performance, Chekhov’s drama and realistic acting theory

Current Projects:

“Circus Aerialists: Bodies, Gender and National Identity” ARC funded 2003-5

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