Shakespeare will be all but absent at Australian theatres in 2024 – but we need to embrace the complexities of the canon, not shy away from it.
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Shakespeare’s Conrad is now an ambitious ‘story producer’. With an eye over all the ‘Nothing Island’ action, he seeds rumours that bloom into reality TV gold.
Calls to decolonise curricula overlook the many ways in which Shakespeare’s plays are constantly being reinterpreted and revitalised in performance.
Disrupting and repositioning the traditional narratives of Shakespeare’s plays helps to challenge western notions of culture, heritage and values.
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Reader in Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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PhD Candidate in Drama and Theatre Studies, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Senior Lecturer (English and Drama), Australian National University
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford