Dr Rebecca Clode
Areas of expertise
- Drama, Theatre And Performance Studies 190404
- Performing Arts And Creative Writing 1904
Research interests
Australian Drama (history, practice, playwrights)
Metatheatre (British and Australian focus)
Contemporary European and American Drama
Teaching interests:
ENGL2101 Modern European Theatre
ENGL2115 C20th American Drama
ENGL2108 Modern Australian Drama
ENGL2083 Foundations of Drama
Biography
Rebecca is a PhD graduate of the ANU and also holds an MA in Text and Performance Studies from King's College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Research interests include Australian drama (history and practice) as well as contemporary European and American drama. Her PhD thesis explores the use of metatheatrical techniques by Australian and British playwrights (Hewett, Nowra, Wertenbaker and Murray) during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Before commencing work at the ANU in 2007, Rebecca worked as a theatre maker. Plays directed include: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Sophokles' Antigone, Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Ionesco's The Lesson (ANU), The Jungle Book (Freerain Frolics), Van Badham's An Organic Response to the Ideological State Apparatus: Australia 1996-2004 (Short & Sweet, Sydney), Jim Cartwright's Two (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Rohini Sharma's Duckshove in the Cities of the Plain (White Bear Theatre, London), Pierre Marivaux's The Will (Darlo Drama). Assistant Director for: The Seven Year Itch (Freerain), Electronic City (For Lizzie Doyle in the NIDA Director's course), David Mamet's Edmond (B-Sharp, Belvoir), David Rabe's Hurly Burly (Griffin Stablemates), Tim Crouch's My Arm (B-Sharp, Belvoir), Ostrovsky's A Family Affair and Vassily Sigarev's Black Milk (B-Sharp, Belvoir).
Publications
- Clode, R 2019, 'Metatheatrical Possibilities in a Re-Consideration of Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good', SKENE Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 87-107.
- Clode, R 2012, 'Cosi' by Louis Nowra.
- Clode, R 2012, 'Summer of the Aliens' by Louis Nowra.
- Clode, R 2010, 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare.
- Clelland, C., and Clifford, R., 2008, 'The Bald Soprano' and 'The Lesson' (director for 'The Lesson') ANU Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia.
- Clode, R 2008, 'Much Ado About Nothing.' ANU Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia.
- Clode, R 2008, 'The Lesson.' Directed for 'papermoon productions,' ANU Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia.