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Theatre and Drama Program
Staff Directory
| Professor Peta Tait |
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Position: Professor, Program Coordinator
Room: HU2 429
Tel: +61 3 9479 1712
Fax: +61 3 9479 3037
Email: P.Tait@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Monash; MA UNSW; PhD UTS |
Major Research Areas:
- Performing emotions and their social meanings
- Physical theatre and performance
- Trapeze history and performing animals in circus
- Chekhov’s drama and realistic acting theory
Current Projects in Script writing:
- Mesmerized, co-authored with Matra Robertson. Portuguese translation title, Portrait of Augustine, Arts Funded production April-May 2010, Brazil.
- S_old, Play-reading, Auspicious Arts Incubator, 15 November 2009, Melbourne.
- Examination of Resources for Writing for Performance, 21 recommendations June 2006, Sydney: Australia Council for the Arts ISBN 1 920784 34 9.
www.ozco.gov.au/arts_resources/publications/script_development
Major Teaching Areas:
- First Year Co-ordinator
- Modern Drama
- Theatre and Theory
- Writing, Internet and Performance
- Body as Performance at 4th year level
Recent Books:
- Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance. London, Routledge. 2005
- Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces, in Chekhov’s Drama and Stanislavski’s Theatre. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. pp. 195.
- (ed). Body Show/s: Australian Viewings of Live Performances. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. pp. 248.
- Tait, P. & Schafer, E. (eds). Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms. Sydney: Currency Press, 1997. pp. 286. Republished 2000.
- Converging Realities: Feminism in Australian Theatre. Sydney: Currency Press, 1994. pp. 189.
- Article: "Performative Acts of Gendered Emotions and Bodies in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard." Modern Drama Vol XLIII (no. 1. 2000): 87-99.
- "Circus Oz Larrikinism, Good Gender Sport?" in Contemporary Theatre Review 14/3, 2004
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