Description: Politics, Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil is a collection of essays by French feminist poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous. Cixous' performative and poetic mode of writing explores the relationship between theatrical performance and contemporary politics.
Brief description: Lara Stevens holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Melbourne and was the Hugh Williamson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne in 2014. She is the author of Anti-War Theatre After Brecht: Dialectical aesthetics in the twenty-first century (Palgrave Macmillan).