A Double Bill of Research Presentations on Theatre and Performance
Join us for an afternoon of critical dialogue featuring two 30-minute research papers and a Q&A session with leading scholars from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. This double bill tackles the urgent intersections of theatre, performance politics, and resistance in a post-pandemic world.
SPEAKER TOPICS
Tony Fisher
Necro Theatre: Staging (Non)resilience in the Age of Capitalist Melancholia
An analysis of Tim Crouch's hauntological necro theatre and what it reveals about the strange temporality of the post-pandemic world, through the lens of capitalist melancholia and a politics of the impasse.
Amanda Stuart Fisher
Women's Life Performance and Epistemic Injustice: Staging resistance and coalition
Examining how women's life performance addresses racialised and gendered epistemic injustice through two case studies from the UK and Australia, staging resistance, survival and coalition.
This event is presented by Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts & Media.
LIVE EVENT & VENUE INFORMATION
The obert Webster Building is in the heart of UNSW Sydney's Kensington Campus. Please note this is a live event only, and will not be available via livestream.
TICKETS
ACCESS
Wheelchair Access
The Robert Webster Building is located at UNSW Sydney's Kensington campus. The closest accessible drop-off or parking point is accessable via Gate 14, in between the Physics Lawn and Barker St Car Park.
More information on getting there can be found via our interactive accessibility map available here.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT & PARKING
Free parking is also available in the Barker St Car Park (Gate 14) from 5.30pm. For access to free parking, event patrons must park in the UNSW Permit Holder bays, available on all levels. The Barker St Car Park (Gate 14) parking station is located here.
Paid casual and visitor parking is offered via the CellOPark App and ‘pay by plate meters’ in all other UNSW car parks. For more information head here.
CONTACT
For all the other enquiries, please email sam@unsw.edu.au or call the Creative Practice Lab on 02 9348 2313.
The Creative Practice Lab is happy to receive phone calls via the National Relay Service. TTY users, phone 133 677, then ask for 02 9348 2313. Speak and Listen users, phone 1300 555 727 then ask for 02 9348 2313. For more information on all other relay calls visit here.
Tony Fisher is Professor of Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. His work explores theatre, art, and performance practices at the intersections of philosophy, cultural theory, social history, aesthetics, and political theory and practice.
His latest book, The Aesthetic Exception:Essays on Art, Theatre and Politics was published by Manchester University Press, 2023. Previous publications include Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy (with Eve Katsouraki, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Foucault's Theatres (with Kelina Gotman, MUP, 2020), and Theatre and Governance in Britain: 1500-1900, Democracy, Disorder and the State (CUP, 2017).
Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher is a Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Her research engages with epistemic injustice and performance, developing new ways of thinking about testimonial, verbatim and autobiographical theatre.
She is the author of Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies and the co-editor of Performing Care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance (both published by MUP in 2020). Her research has been published in a range of international journals, including Performance Research, Studies in Theatre and Performance and TDR. In 2024 she was awarded AHR funding to lead a two-year project 'Credible Witnesses: Young people. Life Performance, and Testimonial Injustice'.
