This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. Covering a wide range of plays it will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.

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JOANNE TOMPKINS is Associate Professor/Reader at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her books include Post-colonial Theatre (with Helen Gilbert) and Women's Intercultural Performance (with Julie Holledge). While co-editing Modern Drama, she co-edited Modern Drama: Defining the Field with Ric Knowles and W.B. Worthen. She develops virtual reality models of theatres for research and practical applications.

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Book Title: Unsettling Space
Book Subtitle: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre
Authors: Joanne Tompkins
Series Title: Studies in International Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286245
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8562-0Published: 08 November 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28624-5Published: 08 November 2006
Series ISSN: 2947-4949
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 204
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Cultural Studies

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Spatial Coordinates

Mapping Australian Space in Theatre

Monuments

Contamination

The Borders of Identity

Conclusion: Haunted Pasts and Methektic Futures

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