Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

Performance Events Effects understands the global flows of behaviour that constitute a broad range of performance events through current theories and practices of memory. In particular, the course examines how performances from the Americas, Eastern Europe, and indigenous Australia are shaped in response to contemporary narratives of trauma, terror, colonialism and war. It also examines, through these narratives, the role of performance as a model of response and responsibility. In this respect, the course examines recent global politics in order to understand the cultural and social efficacy world performances sustain.