Dr Andrew Filmer
Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and PerformanceBA Hons Class 1 (Sydney); PhD (Sydney); PGCTHE (Wales); FHEA
Contact
Email: awf@aber.ac.uk
Office: F.G.4 Foundry Building (Parry-Williams Extension)
Phone: 01970 628487
Teaching Areas
Module coordination:
- TP10120 Studying Theatre 1
- TP30120 Analyzing Performance
- TP21120 Improvisation
- TP33420 Performance And Architecture
Contributor to:
- TP10220 Studying Theatre 2
- TP10520 Performance Workshop
- TP10640 Production Project
- TP22220 Performance in Context
- TP33720 Postcolonial Theatre
- TP36000 Dissertation
- TP32920 Theatre and Performance in the 17th Century
- TPM0130 Theoretical Practices
- TPM0430 Research Practices
Research
My research interests include place, space, location and performance; performance and architecture; theatre architecture; backstage space; improvisation. I am currently researching the concept of location in contemporary site-specific and site-based theatre and performance.
Staff Publications
Book Chapters
‘The Sydney Opera House: Design, History and Theatrical Haunting’ in Irene Eynat-Confino and Eva Sormova (eds) Patronage, Spectacle and the Stage (Prague: Prague Theatre Institute, 2006), 132-41.
Journal Articles
With Rossmanith, K., 'Space and Actor Formation', Theatre Research International 36: 3, 2011, 228-239.
‘Making Space for Performance’, Studies in Theatre and Performance 30: 3, 2010, 275-287.
With Hadley, B., Rajak, J., Caines. R., and Read, A., ‘The ‘Dirty Work’ of the Lie’, Performance Research 15: 2, 2010, 123-129.
‘The place of theatre practice: training and aesthetic tradition at Belvoir Street’, Australasian Drama Studies 53 October 2008, 111-127.
‘Minding the Gap: The Performer in the Wings’, New Theatre Quarterly 24: 2, May 2008, 158-69.
Reports
‘New Theatre Writing: Where Does The Money Go? A Statistical Review’, Sydney: PlayWriting Australia, 2007.
Online Newsletters
‘Gay McAuley: A Leading Figure in Australian Performance Studies’, Semiotix 8, April 2007.
www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix8/sem-8-03.html
Book reviews
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, ‘Ethno-techno: Writing on Performance, Activism, and Pedagogy’ (New York: Routledge, 2005), in Australasian Drama Studies 50, April 2007.
Conference Presentations
‘Articulating the theatricality of architecture: The Persians at FIBUA.’
International Federation for Theatre Research Theatre Architecture Working Group Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011.
‘Place, History, Authenticity’
Regional Spaces, National Stages: Performance beyond London 1945-2010 Symposium, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 2010.
‘Place, History, Authenticity’
Theatre and Performance Research Association Annual Conference Cardiff, Wales, 2010.
‘Architecture, Audience and Desire’
International Federation for Theatre Research Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.
‘Duplicitous Sites: Misperforming Parliament’
Performance Studies International Conference 15, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009.
‘Terrains of Power: Performing Parliamentary Architecture’
Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales, 2009.
‘‘Implacing’ Theatre Practice: A Theoretical Framework’
International Federation for Theatre Research Theatre Architecture Working Group symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
‘A Topography of Sydney Practitioner Space’
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies conference, Sydney, Australia, 2006.
‘Sydney Style: The Performative Implications of ‘Found’ Theatre Space’
1st International Symposium on Environment, Behaviour and Society, Sydney, Australia, 2006
‘Within and Without: Containing the Heart of PQ’
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies conference, Wagga Wagga, Australia, 2005.
‘Somewhere Between the Dressing Room and The Stage: Wrestling with the Wings’
Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 2004.
‘The Sydney Opera House: Design, History and Theatrical Inhabitation’
International Federation for Theatre Research Scenography Working Group conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003.