Theatre & Law offers the first comprehensive account of the complex relations between legal process and performances. Through ten major principles of performance within law, it establishes how law itself is a performative mode of practice and reflects upon the co-dependence of law, performance and politics in celebrated works of theatre.

The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures, students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social Ecology.The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in London’s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of ‘cultural cruelty’ wreaked by fina...

The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread”, echoing poet Dylan Thomas’ phrase “the green fuse”—carries multiple meanings. On a ...

Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one that spans pre-history to the present day.Sixty years ago, in 1962, Richard Southern wrote a remarkabl...

The Dancing Man is set in the late 1960's, early 70's.It had begun as a normal summer's day in suburban Wahroonga on Sydney's affluent North Shore. In the back yard of the Swain house, workmen set about making good the garden that they had disturbed when connecting the house to the new sewer mains, and removing the now redundant septic tank.Inside, Cynthia and Peter Swain drifted through life and their marriage.The discovery of a skeleton in the bottom of the tank put ...

What would you do if you believed that your church was more interested in profit than prophet?This was the dilemma facing Frank McIvor. He had become disillusioned with the doctrine of the church that he had attended, and paid his tithe to, for the past 10 years, so he decided to do something about it.He hired Lawyer Michael Henderson, and together they sued the church for not honouring its promise to increase his finances seven-fold if he tithed diligently. To do this they h...

Life on the Road is a collection of short love stories with a distinctive Australian theme. These are as much about a love of the country, as they are about the characters that live there. Some of them are based around the cities, while others are set in this vast, largely uninhabited, countryside. All of them are about the power of love to bring people together in spite of what life can throw at them, a triumph of the power of two.Life on the Road is the story of a road train drive...

In the early hours of the 13th of February 1978 outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel, a bomb detonated in the rear of a garbage truck killing to City Council garbage men and wounding several police officers, one of whom later died from his injuries. This much is fact.The Hilton Hotel was the venue of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting.Who had planted the bomb and why?This question has never been answered although arrests were made. Those arrested we...

What would it take to transform me from a writer geek toThe Avenger'?Could it be that my wife is having an affair with my financial advisor?Could it be that the local crime boss was after me for several million dollars that he believed was his?Could it be that several government agencies were afraid that I would reveal their involvement in a drug importation scheme?Could it be that when my wife and financial advisor are found murdered the police name me a...

Alan Read asserts that there is no split between the practice and theory of theatre, but a divide between the written and the unwritten. In this revealing book, he sets out to retrieve the theatre of spontaneity and tactics, which grows out of the experience of everyday life. It is a theatre which defines itself in terms of people and places rather than the idealised empty space of avant garde performance.Read examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics o...

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not only what it might mean to 'speak architecturally' but also the innate relations between the artist's and architect's work, how they are distinct, and in inspiring ways, how they might relate through questions of built form. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects, cultural hist...

Prepare to fall in love with MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland's treasured Hedgehog Hollow series.'I loved my trip to Hedgehog Hollow. An emotional read, full of twists and turns' Heidi SwainCan love really be found when you stop looking for it...?As Samantha Wishaw watches the love of her life marry another woman, she’s ready to give up hope of finding her happy ever after.But when a chance encounter leads Sam...