Performance And Cosmopolitics Book

List of Illustrations vii

Series Editors' Preface viii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction: Performing Cosmopolitics 1

New cosmopolitanisms 4

Theatre matters 11

Cosmopolitanism in Australia 14

Locating Australasian theatre 17

1 (Anti-)Cosmopolitan Encounters 21

Aboriginals and Asians on the colonial stage 21

Staging Otherness 26

White Australia or piebald possibilities? 32

Miscegenation and its discontents 39

2 Indigenizing Australian Theatre 47

Bicentennial blues 50

Reconciliation: a bran nue dae? 56

Sharing histories and sorry business 60

Awakenings: indigenous arts showcased 66

Indigeneity and commodity culture 72

3 Asianizmg Australian Theatre 82

Eastward ho! 85

Staging Asia 89

Embodying Asia 97

Trading (with) Asia 105

4 Marketing Difference at the Adelaide Festival 112

5 Crossing Cultures: Case Studies 131

Aboriginal body cultures and the canonical stage 131

The Floating World - a cultural barometer 142

Australian appropriations of the Suzuki Method 154

6 Asian Australian Hybrid Praxis 166

7 Performance and Asylum: Ethics, Embodiment, Efficacy 186

Conclusion: Cosmopolitics in the New Millennium 207

Notes 213

Bibliography 221

Index 236