Dr Sue Tweg

Research Interests

Her research areas include performance history, Shakespeare, drama and film,commedia dell'arte and performance combining different arts disciplines.

Recent work has included the performance history of The Tempest and Jane Austen's London theatre-going, editing short commedia performance texts and contemporary Gothic scripts, and writing the libretto for a new opera.

Creative work

Sue has experience in many facets of theatre and music performance, including as librettist, actor, singer, writer, stage manager, director, designer, mask and costume maker. She has been involved in a performance project with the newly formed Monash Graduate Players who have taken a new Restoration-style play, Pandora's Box to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2001. Sue's research background in dramaturgy and historical period acting has contributed to the great success of this production. She has also directed a play, written by graduate Sally Faraday, and created costumes for the production.

Community service

She is a member of the early music group ACORD and collaborates with composer Johanna Selleck in making new theatre works. She conducts workshops and writes regularly for Cinemedia and VATE and has recently been appointed Convenor of VCE Theatre Studies by the Victorian Board of Studies.

Selected Publications

• William Shakespeare's "Othello" (Insight Text Guide, 2000)
• Playing the Past: Three Plays by Australian Women , edited with Kerry Kilner (Currency Press, 1995)