Sarah Balkin

Theory: Deadpan and Comedy Theory

Sarah Balkin

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter considers deadpan’s historical emergence in light of comedy theory, giving particular attention to theories that brac..

The Killjoy Comedian: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Theatre Research International

In her 2017 show Nanette, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby announced that she was quitting comedy. In the show, Gadsby argued tha..

Archival contingencies: institutional afterlives of an antipodal library

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Textual Practice

Ernest Scott (1867–1939), an early history professor at the University of Melbourne, left thirteen thousand books to the universit..

Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

Sarah Balkin

Book  |  2019

Theater’s materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonom..

Alison Croggon, Remembered Presences: Responses to Theatre

Sarah Balkin

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australasian Drama Studies

Remembered Presences collects in print Alison Croggon's selected reviews and writing about theatre from 2004 to 2017. Most of thes..

‘The Thin Air of Reality’: Applause in the lecture theatre

S Balkin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Performance Research

As a gesture applause is both a demonstration of etiquette and an expression of feeling. This article asks how applause can help t..

Theatre Research International

Editorship  |  2018  |  Theatre Research International

Monist Dramaturgy in Strindberg’s The Black Glove

S Balkin

Journal article  |  2017  |  Modern Drama: world drama from 1850 to the present

During his Inferno period (1894-97), August Strindberg studied Ernst Haeckel's monism, which sought to bring the divine back into ..

“My relationship to the public is changing”: Marina Abramović: In Residence

S Balkin, S D'Urso

Journal article  |  2017  |  TDR/The Drama Review

Marina Abramović: In Residence (2015) was a participatory public art project that relied on “facilitators” trained in the Abramovi..

Realizing Personality in The Importance of Being Earnest

S Balkin

Journal article  |  2016  |  Modern Drama

Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) both centrally feature imaginary person..