Susanne Thurow Susanne Thurow i(15507474 works by)
Gender: Female
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Susanne Thurow has been a 'Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales, researching digitally enhanced performing arts. Her PhD focused on identity in contemporary Australian Indigenous theatre. From 2011 to 2013, she supported Big hART as Researcher and Associated Arts Manager on their Namatjira and Yijala Yala projects, while in the past ten years, she has also worked for the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney, as well as for Goethe Institut, Thalia Theater and the 2017 Theater der Welt Festival (Hamburg, Germany).' (Australasian Drama Studies, No. 73, Oct 2018)

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y separately published work icon Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage : Land, People, Culture London New York (City) : Routledge , 2020 18706499 2020 multi chapter work criticism

'Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity.

'Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics.

'The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin's Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss' I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists' engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.' (Publication summary)

2021 winner ASAL Awards Alvie Egan Award
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