Barrie Kosky’s Transnational Theatres

James Phillips is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. His research interests are aesthetics, political philosophy and their interaction. He is the author of Heidegger’s Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (2005) and The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (2007) and the editor of Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema (2008), all of which came out with Stanford University Press. His most recent monograph is Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.



John R. Severn is a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, working on an Australian Research Council-funded project on the cultural and economic value of theatre in Australia. His wider research focuses on adaptation, theatre, opera and musical theatre, and community. He is the author of Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical, and co-editor with Ulrike Garde of Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany and Beyond (both Routledge). His journal articles explore the ways operatic and musical adaptations have engaged with community inclusion from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.