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A selection of papers presented at the Centre?s postgraduate seminar in 1997, a report on the year?s workshops and performance projects and the way they relate to both teaching and research, and a summary of proceedings of the Theatre Matters conference hosted by the Centre.

Contents:

• J. Lowell Lewis and Ian Maxwell "Introduction"
• Laura Ginters "Special events at the Centre for Performance Studies 1997"
• Various "Report on Teaching"
• Post-Graduate Research Seminar
• Laura Ginters "Introduction"
• Kate Rossmanith "Rehearsal Observation: The New Theatre's 1997 The Season at Sarsaparilla"
• Mary Adams "In her Own (W)right: Alter/Native Performance"
• Paul Dwyer "The Forum Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings"
• Laura Ginters "So this is Heaven? I didn't think there'd be so many blackfellas here"
• Russell Emerson "Computer Imaging of Theatre Spaces. Representing the Empty Space: Software as Design Tool"
• Forum Proceedings: 'Theatre Matters'
• Ian Maxwell "Foreword"
• Ian Maxwell "Why 'Theatre Matters'"
• Ross Gibson Keynote Address: "Models of Comportment"
• Discussion
• Chris Mead "Cruel are the Times"
• Discussion
• Anna Broinowski "Why Did the Actor Cross the Road?"
• Discussion
• Cameron Tonkin "Sustaining Theatre: Theatre and Sustainability"
• Discussion
• Wrap Up
• J. Lowell Lewis "Afterword"