Cirrus@Austlit

Between March and June 1999 Marcel Dorney and his fellow collaborators worked on Bulldog Front at the University of Queensland. As part of his honours thesis the project attempted to realise the political potential of a physically-oriented rehearsal style. The mode of operation of the show - the way it was rehearsed and performed, as well as the mode of its reception concentrated almost entirely upon the labour of the actors to develop and realise the operation of political forces through physical action. The politicisation of bodily desire within this framework was not an avowed intention at the beginning on the process, neither textually nor in the conception of the action by the creative team. The role of discourses regarding desire asserted themselves repeatedly in the course of realising the action, however, and demonstrate how easily the process allowed the collaborators to address the social implications of specifically sexual desire within a textual matrix which often actively marginalised it.

[Abstracted from Marcel Dorney's Don't Lean on the Window : Desire's Presence and Representation in Political Drama.' M/C Journal 2.5 (1999)]