Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

This course examines a broad range of cultural, quotidian, political and theatrical performance events from around the globe. With a particular focus on the multicultural, the intercultural and the postcolonial, Studies in World Performance uses performance theory to understand the global flows of behaviour that contextualise how performance events create meaning and are cross-culturally interpreted. In particular, the course examines how performances from the Americas, Eastern Europe, indigenous Australia and South-East Asia are shaped in response to global narratives of trauma, terror, colonialism and war. In this respect, the course examines recent global politics in order to understand the cultural and social efficacy world performances sustain.