Select Publications
Books
, 2018, Bertolt Brecht (2nd Edition), Routledge, London and New York
, 2016, 'Theatre of Real People: Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel Am Ufer and Beyond', Bloomsbury Publishing, London
, 2015, 'Rimini Protokoll Close-Up: Lektüren', Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover
, 2009, Bertolt Brecht, Routledge, London and New York
Book Chapters
, 2022, ''Valentin, Brecht and Comic Inelasticity: Ridiculing Rigidity as an Impediment to Social Change'', in Gray J; Trahair L (ed.), 'Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy', Rowman & Littlefield, London, pp. 89 - 112, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615091/Second-Nature-Comic-Performance-and-Philosophy
, 2021, '"Models for Epic Theater from the Munich Years: Wedekind and Valentin"', in Brockmann S (ed.), Bertolt Brecht in Context, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 26 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108608800
, 2018, '"Brecht's Perspectives, Then and Now: Class, Gender and the Social Stakes of Performance"', in Barnett D; Shepherd S (ed.), "The Great European Stage Directors", vol. 2 on Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht, Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, London and New York, pp. 157 - 181
, 2015, ''"100% City" and Popular Factual Television: A New Game Plan for Managing Proximity to People?'', in Birgfeld J; Garde U; Mumford M (ed.), 'Rimini Protokoll Close-Up: Lektüren', Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover, pp. 278 - 301
, 2015, ''Introduction: Diverse and Close-Up Navigations of Rimini Protokoll's Theatre'', in 'Rimini Protokoll Close-Up: Lektüren', Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover, pp. ix - xxv
, 2015, '‘Panel Discussion "100% Melbourne": Contemporary Documentary Performance that Puts “Real Melbournians” on the Stage’', in Mumford M (ed.), 'Rimini Protokoll Close-Up: Lektüren', Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover, pp. 302 - 317
, 2014, ''Towards Transculturality in Reality Theatre from Berlin and Sydney: A Study of the Nomad in Rimini Protokoll's "Cargo Sofia-X" and the 'Spiritual Medium' in "Fast Cars and Tractor Engines" by Urban Theatre Projects'', in Corkhill A; Lewis A (ed.), Intercultural Encounters in German Studies, Röhrig, St. Ingbert, pp. 181 - 196, http://www.roehrig-verlag.de/print_product_info.php?products_id=55652
, 2013, ''Postdramatic Reality Theatre and Productive Insecurity: Destabilising Encounters with the Unfamiliar in Theatre from Sydney and Berlin'', in Carroll J; Professor SG; Jürs-Munby K (ed.), Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance, A&C Black, London, pp. 147 - 164
, 2013, 'Film review: 'The Threepenny Opera'', in Langford M (ed.), 'Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2', Intellect, Bristol, pp. 210 - 212
, 2011, 'Fluid Collectives of Friendly Strangers: The Creative Politics of Difference in the Reality Theatre of Rimini Protokoll and Urban Theatre Projects', in Fischer G; Vassen F (ed.), Collective creativity : collaborative work in the sciences, literature and the arts, Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 329 - 343
, 2010, ''"Aftershocks": Voices from a Shaken Community'', in Brown P (ed.), Verbatim: Staging Memory and Community, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, pp. 37 - 48
, 2010, 'A Short History of Verbatim Theatre', in Brown P (ed.), Verbatim: Staging Memory and Community, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, pp. 9 - 17
, 2003, 'Encyclopedia entry: 'Illusion'', in Kennedy D (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance, Oxford University Press, Oxford New York, pp. 617
, 2003, 'Encyclopedia entry: Agitprop', in Kennedy D (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance, Oxford University Press, Oxford New York, pp. 38
, 2003, 'Encylopedia entry: 'Verfremdung'', in Kennedy D (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance, Oxford University Press, Oxford New York, pp. 1404 - 1405
, 2003, 'Enyclopedia entry: 'Bourgeois Theatre'', in Kennedy D (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance, Oxford University Press, Oxford New York, pp. 176 - 177
, 2002, '‘Encountering Stories from Contemporary German Theatre’', in Contemporary German Cultural Studies, Arnold, London, pp. 219 - 240
, 1998, ''"Dragging” Brecht’s Gestus Onwards: A Feminist Challenge’ in Steve Giles and Rodney Livingstone (eds), 'Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays'', in 'Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays', Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 240 - 257
Journal articles
, 2021, 'Jenn Stephenson, Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real', Theatre Research in Canada, 42, pp. 320 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/tric.42.2.b03
, 2015, ''Staging Real People: On the Arts and Effects of Non-Professional Theatre Performers'', Performance Paradigm, pp. 5 - 15, http://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/167/165
, 2015, 'Panel discussion title: 'Putting Real People on Stage: Helgard Haug (Rimini Protokoll) in Conversation with Practitioners and Academics from Australia'', Performance Paradigm, pp. 101 - 115, http://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/165
, 2013, '‘Rimini Protokoll's Reality Theatre and Intercultural Encounter: Towards an Ethical Art of Partial Proximity’', Contemporary Theatre Review, 23, pp. 158 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2013.777057
, 2012, 'Magazine article: 'Rimini Protokoll Presents Real Experts: "100% Melbourne" and "Radio Muezzin" (Sydney)'', Kultur, 23, pp. 16 - 17
, 2012, 'Performance Review: ''Experts of the Everyday: Rimini Protokoll'', RealTime, 108, pp. 26
, 2011, 'Performance review of 'Baal'', Communications from the International Brecht Society, 40, pp. 58 - 62
, 2008, 'Book Review: Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion', Performance Paradigm
, 2005, 'Women and German drama: Playwrights and their texts, 1860-1945.', THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL, 30, pp. 194 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0307883305251416
, 2005, 'Book Review: Women and German Drama: Playwrights and their Texts, 1869 - 1945', Theatre Research International, 30, pp. 194 - 195
, 2004, 'Pina Bausch Choreographs Blaubart: A Transgressive or Regressive Act?', German Life and Letters, 57, pp. 45 - 57
, 2003, 'Barthes on Brecht’s Tableau: Fetish meets Flux', Communications from the International Brecht Society, 32, pp. 42 - 47
, 2002, '‘Translating the Strange, Performing the Peculiar: Marieluise Fleißer's "Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt"’', Studies in Theatre and Performance, 22, pp. 69 - 81
, 2001, '‘Gestic Masks in Brecht’s Theatre: A Testimony to the Contradictions and Parameters of a Realist Aesthetic’', The Brecht Yearbook, 26, pp. 143 - 171
, 2000, '‘Brecht on Acting for the 21st Century: Interrogating and Re-Inscribing the Fixed’', Communications from the International Brecht Society, 29, pp. 44 - 49
, 2000, 'Book Review of: 'Schauspielerinnen im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ihr Leben, Ihre Schriften und Ihr Publikum.' By Ruth Emde (Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997).', Theatre Research International
, 2000, 'Book Review: 'Brecht Sourcebook' Edited by Carol Martin & Henry Bial. London & New York: Routledge, 2000', Theatre Research International
, 1998, 'Book Review of: 'German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage' By David F. Kuhns (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).', Theatre Research international
, 1997, 'Book Review of: 'German Theatre: A Bibliography from the Beginning to 1995' By Michael Patterson (Leicester: Motley Press, 1996).', Theatre Research International
, 1997, 'Book Review of: 'The Shocking Ballad Picture Show' By Tom Cheesman (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994).', Theatre Research International
, 1995, 'Brecht Studies Stanislavski: Just a Tactical Move?', New Theatre Quarterly, 11, pp. 241 - 258