Publications

Project Publications:

(Forth. 2007) Varney, D. (ed.) Theatre in the Berlin Republic, Brussells, Peter Lang.

2006 "Where Culture and Politics Intersect." Kultur (13): 16.

2006 "Transit Heimat: Translation, Transnational Subjectivity and Mobility in German Theatre." Transit 2(1), Article 61008.

2005 "Where Culture and Politics Intersect: Heiner Müller and Martin Wuttke stage new images for a time of change." Performance Research 10(2).

2005 "Grotesque Images and Sardonic Humour: Pain and Affect in German Drama." Double Dialogues (6).

2003 "Heiner Müller's Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man: Atrocity and Pain in German History and Theatre." Double Dialogues (4): 1-9.

Presentations 2004 - 2006:

2006 'Blue Man Group at Potsdamer Platz – National Issues and Global Pressure,' Symposium: Where Culture and Politics Intersect - German Theatre since Reunification, University of Melbourne, 15-16 September 2006.

2006 'The multicultural kitchen and other transnational issues in German theatre,' International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT) Conference, Helsinki 7-12 August 2006

2006 'Shedding the national and historical: its benefits and dangers,' Feminist Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT) Conference, Helsinki 7-12 August 2006

2006 'A Comparative Study of ‘Being Political’: Anna Langhoff and Christoph Schlingensief,' Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2006

2006 'Invisible Boxes - Expanding definitions of the possible,' Playworks Festival - Keynote Address, Sydney, 5-7 May 2006

2005 'Grannie, they've probably been expecting it, some sort of Native Title claim': Australian drama and the post-Mabo era,' Feminist Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT) Conference, Maryland, USA, June 2005

2005 'Grotesque Images and Sardonic Humour: Pain and Affect in German Drama,' Double Dialogues 2005

2004 'Comedy as Critique: Heiner Müller directs Arturo Ui at the Berliner Ensemble,' Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2004.

Additional Selected Publications - Dr. Denise Varney

Books
Varney, D. and R. Fensham (2005). The Dolls' Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Press.

Chapter in Books
(2004) Rhizomatic Dramaturgy: Alternative Performance Practices in Alternatives: Debating Theatre Culture in the Age of Con-Fusion. P. Eckersall, Tadashi U & Naoto M. Brussels, P.I.E. - Peter Lang.

(1998) 'Images of Women in Theatre' bibliographical essay in Amico, Eleanor (ed.)Reader's Guide to Women's Studies Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers

(1993). 'Feminist performance techniques and Shakespeare' in Philip M ead and Marion Campbell (Eds.) Shakespeare's Books: Contemporary Cultural Politics and the Persistence of Empire Melbourne: English Department, University of Melbourne.

Refereed Journals
(2003). "Hannie Rayson's Life After George: theatrical intervention and public intellectual discourse." Australian Drama Studies 42: 161-176.

(2003). "The Desire to affirm and challenge: an interview with Hannie Rayson." Australian Drama Studies 42: 146-160.

(2003). "White-out: Theatre as an Agent of Border Patrol." Theatre Research International 28(3): 326-338. (2001). "Performing Sexual Difference: a Feminist Appropriation of Brecht." The Brecht Yearbook 26: 127-142.

(2001).Eckersall, P., R. Fensham, E, Scheer & D Varney "Tokyo Diary." Performance Research 6(1): 71-86.

(2000). "Focus on the Body: Towards a Feminist Reading of Brecht in Performance." Communications from the International Brecht Society 29(1, 2): 29-39.

(2000). "Rethinking the performance of Brecht: Lines of flight, Becoming and the Female Subject" in The UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing Vol. 6, No 1, May.

(2000). "More-and less-than: Liveness, Video Recording, and the Future of Performance" in New Theatre Quarterly Vol. XVI Part 1 (NTQ 61) February.

(1999) Varney, D. and R. Fensham "'Help me, I'm drowning!' calls the Man in Jenny Kemp's The Black Sequin Dress: heterosexual masculinity in feminist performance." Australian Drama Studies 34: 68-85.

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Double Dialogues

http://www.doubledialogues.com/

Performance Research

http://www.performance-research.net/

Transit

http://german.berkeley.edu/transit/index.html

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