Professor Adrian Kiernander
Professor, School of Arts
Qualifications
MA, PhD (Auckland)
Contact
| Email: | akiernan@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG7 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3755 (or +61 2 6773 3755 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
| Mobile: | 0418 499 839 |
Adrian Kiernander has been Professor of Theatre & Performance since 1993. Prior to that he taught theatre and worked as a director at the University of Queensland and Victoria University of Wellington. He has been a regular theatre and opera critic for The Australian and The Bulletin. He has directed over 50 theatre and opera productions, and in 1984 received a French Government scholarship to study in France with Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil. He has published a book on the work of Mnouchkine and her company in the Cambridge University Press "Directors in Perspective" series. His current teaching and research interests include areas of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian theatre history, especially physical theatre and dance theatre, and representations of masculinity in Australian theatre. He is currently an Executive member of the Australasian Drama Studies Association, and Chair of the Council of Heads of Australian University Theatre Studies Institutions. He is a member of the editorial board of Australasian Drama Studies, and has served on the Drama Examinations Committee of the NSW Board of Studies.
Selected Productions
Othello (Shakespeare) University of New England
Gallathea (Lyly) University of New England and The Armidale School.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare) Wellington Summer Shakespeare
The Bakkhai (Euripides) University of Queensland.
Salome (Wilde) University of Queensland.
The Tempest (Shakespeare) University of Queensland.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai) Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
Stalwart the Bushranger (Harpur) University of Queensland.
The Ghost Sonata (Strindberg) University of Queensland.
Dreams in an Empty City (Sewell) Ad Hoc.
Masses and Man (Toller) University of Queensland.
Waituhi (Ross Harris) State Opera House, Wellington.
Recital I (Berio) Victoria University.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) Victoria University.
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) National Opera of New Zealand.
The Soldier's Tale (Stravinsky) and Fanny Robin (Harper) Victoria University.
Hamlet (Shakespeare) Auckland University.
The Human Voice (Cocteau) New Independent Theatre.
The Balcony (Genet) Auckland University.
The Night of the Iguana (Williams) New Independent Theatre.
Creditors (Strindberg) Theatre Co-op.
Canterbury (Chaucer,adapt.) Auckland University.
A Game at Chesse (Middleton) Theatre Corporate.
The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (Grass) Auckland University.
Publications
Kiernander, A, Bollen, J, Parr, B (eds), 2006, What a Man’s Gotta Do? Masculinities in performance, , Armidale, NSW, CALLTS,
Kiernander, A, 1993, Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil, , University of Cambridge Press,
Leitch, G, 1990, The Land of the Moa, edited and introduced by Adrian Kiernander, Wellington: Victoria University Press,
Kiernander, A, 2001, John Bell and a Post-colonial Australian Shakespeare, 1963-2000, O Brave New World: Two centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian Stage, eds. John Golder and Richard Madelaine, Sydney: Currency Press, pp. 236-255,
Kiernander, A, 2000, The Unclassic Body in the Theatre of John Bell, in Body Show/s: Australian viewings of live performance, ed. Peta Tait, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 124-135,
Kiernander, A, 2000, The Impossibilities of the Dance Body: the work of Meryl Tankard, in Body Show/s: Australian viewings of live performance, ed. Peta Tait, Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, pp. 205-216,
Kiernander, A, 1992, The Orient, the Feminine: the Use of Interculturalism by the Théâtre du Soleil, in Gender in Performance ed. Laurence Senelick, University Press of New England, pp. 183-192,
Kiernander, A, 1992, L'Orient, le féminin, in Confluences; le dialogue des cultures dans les spectacles contemporains, a festschrift for Anne Ubersfeld, ed. Patrice Pavis, Prépublications du Petit Bricoleur de Bois-Robert, pp. 195-204,
Kiernander, A, 1998, Cupid's bow burn'd; or, difference endangered in John Lyly's Gallathea and, Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 33, No. October, pp. 54-64,
Kiernander, A, 1997, Making Things Up As We Go Along: an introduction to Tim Benzie's Personal, Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 31, No. October, pp. 124-128,
Kiernander, A, 1997, After the Golden Age: Australian Theatre in the Second Half of the Nineteenth, Northern Exposures, ed. Malcolm Gillies, Occasional Paper 19, Papers from the 1996 Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, pp. 25-44,
Kiernander, A, 1997, Pizza et Circenses, Re-Siting Theatre: approaches to regional theatre development, ed. Jennifer Webb, Rockhampton: CQU, pp. 5-20,
Kiernander, A, 1996, Paris Was Always Burning: (Drag) Queens and Kings in Two Early Plays by Alexandre Dumas père, Essays in Theatre/Etudes théâtrales, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 159-173,
Kiernander, A, 1995, The Two(?) Gentlemen(?) of Verona(?): binarism, patriarchy and non-consensual sex somewhere in the vicinity of Milan, Social Semiotics 4, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 31-46,
Kiernander, A, 1995, The Dance Theatre of Meryl Tankard, TheatreForum, Vol. 6, No. Winter/Spring, pp. 4-11,
Kiernander, A, 1994, Hissing the Critic, Meanjin, Vol. 53, No. 3, Spring, pp. 455-459,
Kiernander, A, 1994, Theatre Without the Stink of Artan Interview with Neil Bartlett, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 221-236,
Kiernander, A, 1993, Prospero's Island of the Dead: Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata as a Source for The Tempest, Shakespeare and the World Elsewhere, proceedings of the second Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association, pp. 56-65,
Kiernander, A, 1992, Reading(,) Theatre(,) Techniques: Responding to the Influence of Asian Theatre in the Work of Ariane Mnouchkine, Modern Drama, Vol. 35, pp. 149-158,
Kiernander, A, 1990, The Role of Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du Soleil, Modern Drama, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 322-332,
Kiernander, A, 1986, Actor Training at the Centre National d'Art et d'Essai, Australasian Drama Studies, Vol. 9, No. october, pp. 53-61,
Kiernander, A, 1986, The Théâtre du Soleil: A Brief History of the Company, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 195-203,
Kiernander, A, 1986, The Théâtre du Soleil: The Road to Cambodia, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 20-212,