Theatre's Heterotopias analyses performance space, using the concept of heterotopia: a location that, when apparent in performance, refers to the actual world, thus activating performance in its culture. Case studies cover site-specific and multimedia performance, and selected productions from the National Theatre of Scotland and the Globe Theatre.

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Joanne Tompkins teaches Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is author or co-author of Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (2007); Women's Intercultural Performance; Post-Colonial Drama (2000); and co-editor of Performing Site-Specific Theatre: Politics, Place, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her research addresses spatiality, the digital humanities, and theatre's engagement with cultural politics.

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Introduction: Theatre, Space and World-making 1. Theatre and the Construction of Alternate Spaces 2. Heterotopia and Site-Specificity 3. Heterotopia, the National Theatre of Scotland, and 'Theatre without Walls' 4. Re-establishing Heterotopic Relationships at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre 5. Heterotopia and Multimedia Conclusion: Gaps, Absences, and Alternate Orderings Bibliography Index