Timothy Kazuo Steains

Timothy Kazuo Steains is a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His thesis, Becoming Mixed: Intercultural Engagements with Japan in Contemporary Australian Literature, Cinema, and Theatre, used mixed race identity as a framework to think about how cross-cultural contact can lead to the cultivation of multiple nodes of identification for people and nations. His primary research interests are in Asian Australian studies and mixed race studies.
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Blind Bats in the Belfry : Gloss

This raises the question of whether theatre pieces that engage with race as a concept should direct audiences towards particular kinds of arguments. And if there are inexplicit arguments about diverse casting and performance in this imagined piece, will they be evident to audiences?