Paul Rae

Playing Real: Mimesis, Media and Mischief

Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2022  |  MODERN DRAMA

Engagingly written, Playing Real promises to enhance understandings of performance in contemporary society by analysing examples a..

The aesthetics of intercultural method: from process to procession in new Indonesian and Indo-Australian dance

S Boonstra, P Rae

Journal article  |  2022  |  Inter-Asia Cultural Studies

This article examines how three dances featuring Indonesian artists and commissioned for Melbourne's 2020 Asia-Pacific Triennial o..

Regional Theatre in Australia

Jennifer Beckett, Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australasian Drama Studies

Reflects upon the increasing regionalisation of arts and cultural activity in Australia, in the context of government investments ..

Being second generation: Australian-Indian performers Raina Peterson and Sonya Suares in dialogue

P Rae

Book Chapter  |  2021

In the early 2000s, Australia began to experience the knock-on effects of upheavals in the Middle East, with refugees making their..

The feeling of being watched: lived Confucianism and theatricality in Kuo Pao Kun's mid-1980s monodramas

Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES

The first plays Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) wrote after being released from detention in 1980 coincided with a concerted effort by the..

Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Creative and Cultural Institutions, 2020, no. 248

Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae, Jennifer Beckett

Report  |  2020

A strong Australian cultural sector requires a carefully considered and strong policy foundation in which funding does not leave w..

Archipelagic Performance: Scenes from Maritime Southeast Asia

Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2019  |  Theatre Journal

In English, archipelago can refer to a group of islands, the sea around them, or their combination. Performances are of particular..

Masculinity after #MeToo in Mainstream Theatre Watching Miller, rehearsing Kane, reading Rush v Nationwide News Pty Ltd

Eloise Mignon, Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2019  |  Performance Research: a journal of the performing arts

This article argues that the main effect of revelations of sexual harassment prompted by the #MeToo movement, the resulting change..

A Chinese 'Catastrophe': The Moving Target of Political Theatre

Paul Rae

Book Chapter  |  2019

Originally staged in protest at the detention of Czech playwright Vaclav Havel in 1982, Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe stages a pare..

Infratheatre What Theatre Is When It's Not Quite Theatre

Paul Rae

Book Chapter  |  2019