Theatre's Heterotopias

Joanne Tompkins teaches Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is author or co-author of Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (2007); Women's Intercultural Performance; Post-Colonial Drama (2000); and co-editor of Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her research addresses spatiality, the digital humanities, and theatre's engagement with cultural politics.

• Introduction: Theatre, Space and World-making 1. Theatre and the Construction of Alternate Spaces 2. Heterotopia and Site-Specificity 3. Heterotopia, the National Theatre of Scotland, and 'Theatre without Walls' 4. Re-establishing Heterotopic Relationships at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 5. Heterotopia and Multimedia Conclusion: Gaps, Absences, and Alternate Orderings Bibliography Index

“Theatre’s Heterotopias is a rigorous and disciplined study of a high scholarly standard, but it is also intelligent and flexible in its approach, combining extended intellectual work with rich experiential material. … book is an important and original, erudite but graceful contribution to theatre studies and all those variously involved in the theory and practice of the field, but it can also be used productively in other domains of spatial development and construction beyond the boundaries of theatre and performance.” (Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)