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Barrie Kosky’s Transnational Theatres

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Editors:
  1. James Phillips

    1. School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  2. John R. Severn

    1. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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  • The first book to cover the wide-ranging career of the renowned theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky
  • Brings together academic specialists from Australia and Germany, who provide a unique, multidisciplinary overview of Kosky’s work in Australia, Germany and beyond
  • The only book to approach transnational theatre in terms of Barry Kosky's work

Part of the book series: Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues (GGTD)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. It Begins with the Theatre: Barrie Kosky’s Workshop

    • James Phillips, John R. Severn
    Pages 1-30

  3. “Very Much a Laboratory”: Barrie Kosky and the Gilgul Ensemble 1991–1997

    • Yoni Prior, Matt Delbridge
    Pages 31-57

  4. “Aesthetic Ideas”: Mystery and Meaning in the Early Work of Barrie Kosky

    • Jennifer A. McMahon
    Pages 59-80

  5. Something for Everybody? Art, Community, the Unfamiliar, and Barrie Kosky at the Adelaide Festival

    • John R. Severn
    Pages 81-104

  6. Dramaturgies of Repetition and the Denial of Catharsis: Traumatic Breaking Points in Barrie Kosky’s Approach to Character

    • Charlotte Farrell
    Pages 105-122

  7. When All Else Fails, Sing: Barrie Kosky’s The Women of Troy

    • Mara Davis
    Pages 123-136

  8. Barrie Kosky’s Grotesques and the Ecstasy of Theatre

    • James Phillips
    Pages 137-155

  9. “Es klang so alt und war doch so neu”: Barrie Kosky and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    • Michael J. Halliwell
    Pages 157-175

  10. (Not) Repeating the Past in Barrie Kosky’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    • John R. Severn
    Pages 177-198

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-211
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About this book

This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky. Its nine chapters provide multidisciplinary analyses of Barrie Kosky’s working practices and stage productions, from the beginning of his career in Melbourne to his current roles as Head of the Komische Oper Berlin and as a guest director in international demand. Specialists in theatre studies, opera studies, musical theatre studies, aesthetics, and arts administration offer in-depth accounts of Kosky’s unusually wide-ranging engagements with the performing arts – as a director of spoken theatre, operas, musicals, operettas, as an adaptor, a performer, a writer, and an arts manager. Further, this book includes contributions from theatre practitioners with first-hand experience of collaborating with Kosky in the 1990s, who draw on interviews with members of Gilgul, Australia’s first Jewish theatre company, to document this formative period in Kosky’s career. The book investigates the ways in which Kosky has created transnational theatres, through introducing European themes and theatre techniques to his Australian work or through bringing fresh voices to the national dialogue in Germany’s theatre landscape. An appendix contains a timeline and guide to Kosky’s productions to date. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    James Phillips

  • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    John R. Severn

About the editors

James Phillips is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His research interests are aesthetics, political philosophy and their interaction. He is the author of Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (2005) and The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (2007) and the editor of Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema (2008), all of which came out with Stanford University Press. His most recent monograph is Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.


John R. Severn is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, working on an Australian Research Council-funded project on the cultural and economic value of theatre in Australia. His wider research focuses on adaptation, theatre, opera and musical theatre, and community. He is the author of Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical, and co-editor with Ulrike Garde of Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany and Beyond (both Routledge). His journal articles explore the ways operatic and musical adaptations have engaged with community inclusion from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Barrie Kosky’s Transnational Theatres

  • Editors: James Phillips, John R. Severn

  • Series Title: Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75028-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75027-5Published: 29 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75028-2Published: 28 July 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2522-5324

  • Series E-ISSN: 2522-5332

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 211

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Media Sociology, Theatre History

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