Peta Tait

Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has published extensively in drama and performance studies. Recent books include: the co-edited Feminist Ecologies: Changing Environments in the Anthropocene with Lara Stevens and Denise Varney (Palgrave Macmillan 2018); the authored Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows (Sydney University Press 2016); the co-edited The Routledge Circus Studies Reader (Routledge 2016); Wild and Dangerous Performances (Palgrave MacMillan 2012); Circus Bodies (Routledge 2005); Performing Emotions (Ashgate 2002). She is editor of volume one of Great European Stage Directors (Bloomsbury forthcoming), and is currently writing on emotion and affect in theatrical performance. Her play, Eleanor and Mary Alice, about Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary Alice Evatt and human rights, art and war will be remounted in Sydney for the 70-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Submissions

Vanya in Krivina : Gloss

This was a long way from the contained theatre of a Chekhov play presented over a couple of hours and yet it was the same play. Instead, the audience was living with the characters in that house.