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 offers the most rigorous and nuanced examination of heterotopia in performance to date. Joanne Tompkins systematically attends to the complex spatiality of theatre and is sensitive to the ambivalences and ambiguities that theatrical heterotopias entail. Where theatre and performance studies has taken heterotopia too much for granted, Theatre's Heterotopias takes it seriously.' - Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary, University of London, UK