Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies: Recent submissions
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Falling Through Fellatio
Published 2008-06-20Time exposed through the body and being present in an act. Either through a specific sex act or witnessing a memorial to genocide in Rwanda or the death of a loved one time looses its linearity and opens to experienced ...Open AccessConference paper -
Meta-Performativity: Being in Shakespeare’s Moment
Published 2008-06-17In the dramatic performance of text, linguistic performativity is inherent within the utterances provided by the playwright for the character, to be used as if they were in normal use in the world of the play. The actor, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Taking Ethnographic Film Back
Published 2008-06-17This presentation invites questions about the way performance objects manifest cosmological unity. “[T]he framework of the crosses is the bone, ornad, of the ancestor-dancer, while the wool is the flesh of the ancestor-dancer’s ...Open AccessConference paper -
Repositioning the Interface for Cross-Cultural Reception of Indigenous Australian Theatre
Published 2008-06-17Representations and practices of identity on the street and on the stage are always marked and read on many levels within the tension between self claimed concepts and understandings of identity and imposed external concepts ...Open AccessConference paper -
'The Presence of Design': The Sets and Costumes are There, too
Published 2008-06-17We tend to focus on the actor and the audience when we think of being there. However, the design (the space, imagery, costumes and style) dictates the conditions in which the actors and audience engage. This paper will ...Open AccessConference paper