This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. Covering a wide range of plays it will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Spatial Coordinates Mapping Australian Space in Theatre Monuments Contamination The Borders of Identity Conclusion: Haunted Pasts and Methektic Futures Works Cited Index

JOANNE TOMPKINS is Associate Professor/Reader at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her books include Post-colonial Theatre (with Helen Gilbert) and Women's Intercultural Performance (with Julie Holledge). While co-editing Modern Drama, she co-edited Modern Drama: Defining the Field with Ric Knowles and W.B. Worthen. She develops virtual reality models of theatres for research and practical applications.