Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage

<p>This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director Barrie Kosky<i>. </i></p><p>Now a prolific opera director in Europe <i>Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage </i>accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia.<em> </em>This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including <i>The Dybbuk </i>which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991 as well as <i>King Lear </i>(1998) <i>The Lost Echo </i>(2006) and <i>Women of Troy </i>(2008). </p><p>Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with – and radical departure from – classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students particularly those with interests in affect contemporary performance 'director's theatre' and tragedy will benefit from <em>Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage</em>’s vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim. </p>