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Peta Tait

PETA TAIT

  
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Peta Tait's recent works for performance include; 700 Positions (co-winner of the 1996 SGLMG Performing Arts Award), The Party Line's Appearing in Pieces (1993) and The Party Line's Whet Flesh (1997 at The Performance Space, Sydney). Peta Tait has authored a book on the politics of emotions, Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre (Aldershot: Ashgate 2002). She is Associate Professor in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, and author and editor of a further four books including Body Shows: Australian Viewings of Live Performance (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000). Her first collaboration with Matra Robertson was Mesmerized.

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         700 Positions         Breath By Breath         Epicentre         Mesmerized         Party Line's Appearing in Pieces, The         Party Line's Whet Flesh, The

700 Positions

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co-winner of the 1996 SGLMG Performing Arts Award

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Breath By Breath

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A play within a play: writer Anton Chekhov and female actor Olga Knipper's intimate relationship is set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century innovation in theatre and political persecution of Jews in Russia, which became indicative of major developments throughout the century. The consumptive Checkhov, who writes about love, confronts evidence of hatred. Breath By Breath is about different kinds of love; romantic love, love of family, love for theatre and art, and spiritual love for others. It asks - what is the artist's responsibility?

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written by Peta Tait & Matra Robertson

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2 Act 90 mins Realism

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Epicentre

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Three travellers are stranded in a roadside cafe. Vila and Daphne are lovers trying to work out their relationship. Simon has come back to trace his Aboriginal family. The play uses quantum physics as a metaphor to explore the patterns of relationships.

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Full-Length 60 mins comedy

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Mesmerized

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written by Peta Tait & Matra Robertson

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Party Line's Appearing in Pieces, The

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Party Line's Whet Flesh, The

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The Performance Space, Sydney    1997

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