April 2015

Contents

Australian Gothic Drama: Mapping a Nation’s Trauma from Convicts to the Stolen Generation 
by Stephen Carleton 

Andrew Bovell’s When the Rain Stops Falling: Theatre in the Age of ‘Hyperobjects’ 
by Mohebat Ahmadi

Patrick White and Aesthetic Modernism in Mid-Century Australia
by Denise Varney and Sandra D’Urso

Radical Adaptation: Hypertextuality, Feminism and Motherhood in The Rabble’s Frankenstein (After Mary Shelley)
by Sarah French

The Grotesque and the Gothic in Peter King’s John Gabriel Borkman: A Reflection from the Inside 
by Jim Daly

A Thousand Hills: Responding to the Ethical Nightmare 
by Emma Willis

Performing Cultural Heritage: Authenticity and the Spirit of Rebellion 
by Angela Campbell

Performing Haunting Histories: A Psychogeographical Reading of Two Site-Specific Performance Projects on Rottnest Island
by Hannah Böttcher and Alexandra Ludewig

Community Engagement or Community Conversation?: Boomtown, a Large-Scale Regional, Outdoor Community Theatrical Event
by Danielle Carter and Caroline Heim

The Castanet Club: History, Provenance and Influence
by Terence Crawford

Reviews

JAMES MCKINNON, Theatre’s Heterotopias: Performance and the Cultural Politics of Space, by Joanne Tompkins;

KAREN KARTOMI THOMAS, Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory, by Peter Eckersall;

EMMA WILLIS, Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma, edited by Bryoni Trezise and Caroline Wake;

D.B. VALENTINE, Staging Asylum: Contemporary Australian Plays About Refugees, edited by Emma Cox;

NICOLA HYLAND, Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship: Absent Others, by Emma Willis;

SALLY RICHARDS, International Women Stage Directors, edited by Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow;

LINDSAY ANN REID, Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary, by Alison Findlay;

SARAH PETERS, Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah: Soft Revolution, by Alana Valentine;

HILARY HALBA, Don’t Mention Casablanca, by Michelanne Forster;

EMMA WILLIS, Falling and Other Short Plays, by Angie Farrow;

STUART YOUNG, Then It Was Now Again: Selected Critical Writings, by Murray Edmond