1st Edition
Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; "Where the Imagination Can Run Riot": Introducing Barrie Kosky, Affect, and Post-Tragedy; 1. Contextualizing Barrie Kosky in Contemporary Australian Theatre; 2. "Exciting and Raw, Sweaty and Nightmarish": Affect and The Real in The Dybbuk; 3. Barrie Kosky’s King Lear: A Post-Tragedy; 4. The Lost Echo: Rethinking (Post-)Tragic Catharsis as Emergency; 5. Women of Troy: Post-Tragic Spectatorship, Allegory, and Violence; Conclusion: Barrie Kosky's Theatre of Post-Tragic Affects; Index
Biography
Charlotte Farrell is a theatre and performance studies scholar. She holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Farrell has taught at both UNSW and in the Dramatic Literature program at New York University.
