Humanities and Social Sciences

Theatre and Drama Program

Research

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

Dr Rob Conkie

Shakespeare in Performance, Early Modern Theatre and Drama

Current Projects

‘Writing Performative Shakespeares’; new forms of writing about Shakespearean theatre

‘Shakespeare Aftershocks’; contemporary representations and circulations of early modern ideas

Dr Julian Meyrick

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Until recently Julian was Associate Director and Literary Advisor at Melbourne Theatre Company. Julian has directed many award-winning theatre productions for MTC, STC, SASTC, the Griffin and his own kickhouse theatre.  He directed Fever and the inaugural production of Who’s Afraid of the Working Class for the Melbourne Workers Theatre and won the 1998 Green Room Award for Best Director on the Fringe.  He is involved in Australian drama at all levels and as a director and dramaturge has developed countless individual Australian plays.  He was responsible for expanding the Affiliate Writers Scheme at MTC and for initiating the Hard Lines new play program.  He is currently Deputy Chair of PlayWriting Australia and an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University.  As a theatre historian he has published a history of Nimrod Theatre, See How It Runs (2003),a history of MTC, The Drama Continues, a Currency House Platform Paper, Trapped By the Past, and academic articles on post-War Australian theatre, the theory-practice nexus, and contemporary dramaturgy.   In 2009, he will be a member of the federal government Creative Advisory Committee.  His current research, a series of performing arts case studies in the post-Whitlam era, focuses on the relationship between cultural policy and creative practice. 

Mr Geoffrey Milne

Honorary Associate

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.

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