Peta Tait

Peta Tait's recent works for performance include; 700 Positions (co-winner of the 1996 SGLMG Performing Arts Award), The Party Line's Appearing in Pieces (1993) and The Party Line's Whet Flesh (1997 at The Performance Space, Sydney).

Peta Tait has authored a book on the politics of emotions, Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's Theatre (Aldershot: Ashgate 2002).

She is Associate Professor in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, and author and editor of a further four books including Body Shows: Australian Viewings of Live Performance (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000). Her first collaboration with Matra Robertson was Mesmerized.