Caroline Wake

Caroline Wake is a writer, researcher and teacher. She is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She researches the politics of performance, with interests in migration and documentation. She is Editor of Performance Paradigm, Associate Editor of Performance Research, Guest Editor – with Emma Cox – of a special issue on “Envisioning Asylum / Engendering Crisis” for Research in Drama Education (2018), and an Editorial Board Member of Imagined Theatres. She is also editor, with Bryoni Trezise, of Visions and Revisions: Performance, Memory, Trauma (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013) and author of articles in International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Theatre Research International, New Theatre Quarterly, and Modern Drama, among others. Outside the university, Caroline serves as a Board Member for Performance Studies international as well as PACT Centre for Emerging Artists (Sydney). She is also a long-time theatre reviewer, having worked as a reviewer and online producer for RealTime arts magazine for over a decade. She now reviews for The Conversation.


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Scenes of Appalling Human Degradation : Gloss

Who is that woman in the first paragraph, so jaded and bored? Even when I have seen a show, I have not really seen it. And there is always more to see. I start reading.