No Exit: Performance Failure in the Global Mall

Authors

  • Emma Willis University of Auckland

Author Biography

Emma Willis, University of Auckland

Dr. Emma Willis is a senior lecturer in Drama at the University of Auckland. Her research interests include: spectatorship and ethics in contemporary performance, the theatre of Aotearoa New Zealand, tourism and memorial culture, metatheatrical dramaturgies, and subjectivity and community in contemporary performance. She has published in a range of journals including: Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Research International and Performance Research. In 2014 she published a monograph, Theatricality, Dark Tourism and Ethical Spectatorship: Absent Others (Palgrave Macmillan), and in 2015 was awarded the American Theatre and Drama Society Vera Mowry Roberts Award for Research and Publication. She is deputy editor of online performance studies journal, Performance Paradigm.

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2020-07-01

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