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Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004647449
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUSTRALIAN THEATRE in the 1990s is a vigorous enterprise displaying the energies and contradictions of a multicultural society. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Australian theatre and drama surveys the emergence and directions of the new theatrical energies which have challenged or redefined the Australian 'mainstream': Aboriginal, multicultural, Asian-Australian, women's, gay and lesbian, community and young people's theatre; and charts the exciting growth of physical theatre. The contributors assess the impact of evolving funding and industrial priorities, and examine the theoretical and cultural debates surrounding Australian playwriting and theatre-making from the 1970s Vietnam dramas to the postmodern present.

Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s

Author : Richard Fotheringham
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210039
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s written by Richard Fotheringham and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether catching Australian theatre during the 2000s or catching up now, this volume provides the reader with an overview of the decade. It reveals how Australian theatre continues to reflect the major political and social concerns of our time. Each contribution explores an important area of Australian performance so that the volume provides crucial background and insightful analysis for current theatre practice. The contributions cover political theatre, Indigenous theatre, playwrights concerned with cultural identity, key Shakespearean productions, the impact of funding and arts policy on theatre, dramaturgy and innovative projects, leading directors on rehearsal processes, theatre for young people, regional theatre including the Northern Territory, and physical theatre and Circus Oz. The book confirms the consolidation of previous artistic achievement over the decade and identifies the emergence of new trends and creative practices.

Australian Theatre after the New Wave

Author : Julian Meyrick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339892
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Australian Theatre after the New Wave written by Julian Meyrick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in 1975, these ‘alternative’ theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of ‘accountability’, and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation’s theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today. “This is an exceptionally timely book... In giving a history of Australian independent theatre it not only charts the amazing rise and strange disappearance of an energetic, radical and dynamically democratic artistic movement, but also tries to explain that rise and fall, and how we should relate to it now.” — Prof. Justin O’Connor, Monash University “This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Australian theatre and, more broadly... to the global discussion about the vexed relationship between artists, creativity, government funding for the arts and cultural policy.” — Dr. Gillian Arrighi, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White

Author : Denise Varney
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088370
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White written by Denise Varney and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s the board of governors of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia rejected two Patrick White plays, The Ham Funeral in 1962 and Night on Bald Mountain in 1964. Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White documents the scandal that followed the board’s rejections of White’s plays, especially as it acted against the advice of its own drama committee and artistic director on both occasions. Denise Varney and Sandra D’Urso analyze the two events by drawing on the performative behaviour of the board of governors to focus on the question of governance. They shed new light on the cultural politics that surrounded the rejections, arguing that it represents an instance of executive governance of cultural production, in this case theatre and performance. The central argument of the book is that aesthetic modernism in theatre and drama struggled to achieve visibility and acceptability, and posed a threat to the norms and values of early to mid-twentieth-century Australia. The recent productions indicate that despite the Adelaide Festival’s early hostile rejections, White’s plays endure.

Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre

Author : Peter Beaglehole
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004682023
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre written by Peter Beaglehole and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dorothy Hewett joked about needing a face-lift and sex-change to improve her standing, she drew attention to forces that shaped the production and reception of her drama. Drawing on production of her plays over four decades, and interviews with Hewett’s collaborators, this book reveals how cultural memories in theatre solidify and dissolve. Viewing theatre production as a mode of remembrance, Beaglehole grapples with Hewett as a divisive figure who was ahead of a conservative Australia. Revisiting frequently produced plays, including chapters on The Man from Mukinupin and The Chapel Perilous, as well as rarely-produced works, including Nowhere and The Tatty Hollow Story, this book articulates the ongoing relevance of Hewett’s drama to the history of theatre in Australia.

First Nations Australian Theatre for Health Equity

Author : Sarah Woodland
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031655060
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book First Nations Australian Theatre for Health Equity written by Sarah Woodland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stars of Early Australian Theatre

Author : Leann Richards
Publisher : Leann Richards
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stars of Early Australian Theatre written by Leann Richards and published by Leann Richards. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of stars from the early Australian stage, including George Lauri, Florence Young, Carrie Moore and many more.

Theatre Australia (Un)limited

Author : Geoffrey Milne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448583X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Australia (Un)limited written by Geoffrey Milne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre Australia (Un)limited tells a truly national story of the structures of post-war Australian theatre: its artists, companies, financial and policy underpinnings. It gives an inclusive analysis of three ‘waves’ of Australian theatrical activity after 1953, and the types of organisations which grew up to support and maintain them. Subsidy, repertoire patterns, finances and administration, theatre buildings, companies, festivals and notable productions of the commercial, mainstream and alternative Australian theatre are examined state by state, and changes to governmental policy analysed. Theatrical forms comprise not only spoken-word drama, but also music theatre, comedy, theatre-restaurant, circus, puppetry, community theatre in several forms and new mixed-media genres: physical theatre, circus, visual theatre and contemporary performance. Theatre Australia (Un)limited is the first comprehensive overview of the fortunes of Australian theatre as a national enterprise, providing the industrial analysis of the ‘three waves’ essential for the understanding of the New Wave and of contemporary drama.

Theatre and Australia

Author : Julian Meyrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350331384
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Theatre and Australia written by Julian Meyrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has Australia developed, culturally? What is the relationship between European theatre and Aboriginal performance? How do the concepts of memory, space, and love intersect and inform all Australian drama? Theatre and Australia is a stark look at the signal contradictions that make up the nation's sense of self. Exploring how race, gender, and community have influenced Australia's cultural development, this book reveals the history of Australian theatre as a tussle with questions of identity that can neither be entirely repudiated nor fully resolved. This concise study traverses the narrative of Australian theatre since white settlement, examining some of the main plays and performances of the last 230 years, and illuminating the relationship between European, non-Indigenous, and First Nations drama.

Australian Autobiographical Narratives

Author : Kay Walsh
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780642107947
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Don Rubin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415260879
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Don Rubin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Volume 5 covers Asia/Pacific. Entries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin.

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434379
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer)
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136119000
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Irving Brown (Consulting Bibliographer) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.

Australian National Bibliography: 1992

Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1976 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian National Bibliography: 1992 written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Australian Theatre

Author : Graeme Blundell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Australian Theatre written by Graeme Blundell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining backstage tour, Graeme Blundell has selected almost three hundred anecdotes about Australian theatre from its rather sordid origins in the 1790s to the more celebrated age of Barry Humphries, Wendy Harmer and John Bell. Drawn from newspapers, magazines, biographies, memoirs, and historical works, the anecdotes are arranged chronologically and contain reminiscences of all the great figures of the Australian stage: George Coppin, J.C. Williamson, Nellie Melba, Gladys Moncrieff, Roy Rene ('Mo'), Gwen Plumb, PeterFinch, Ray Barrett, Frank Thring, Noel Ferrier, June Slater, Gordon Chater, David Williamson, and Reg Livermore. Overseas artists have also been drawn to the Australian stage, and several of them drift through these pages - Lola Montez, Charles Kean, Sarah Bernhardt, and Noel Coward. (Asked at theairport if he had anything to say to the Sydney Sun, the Master said simply 'Shine'.) Ending with Barry Humphries' caustic account of the opening night of the operatic version of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and with Barrie Kosky's notorious attack on the current state of Australian culture, this is a memorable and spirited celebration of Australian theatre.

Playing Australia

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485872
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Playing Australia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Australia explores the insights and challenges that Australian theatre can offer the international theatre community. Collectively, the essays in this book ask what Australian drama is, has been, and might be, both to Australians and non-Australians, when it is performed in national and international arenas. Playing Australia ranges widely in its discussions and includes analysis of Australian practitioners playing away from home; playing with Australian stereotypes; and the relationship between play, culture, politics and national identity. Topics addressed in this diverse collection include: whiteness, otherness and negotiations of Aboriginal and Asian identities; Australian school and college drama; the discourse of Australian professional theatre magazines: Aboriginal Shakespeare; Australian drama and Australian cricket; the marketing of Australianness in Germany; the international successes of Tap Dogs and Cloudstreet. New histories of Australian theatre are offered and practitioners whose careers are reconsidered in detail include high wire-walker Ella Zuila, playwright May Holt, suffrage worker and playwright Inez Bensusan, classicist Gilbert Murray, and commercial playwright Haddon Chambers. With contributions from authors as diverse as Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington and leading post-colonial critic Helen Gilbert, and interview discussion with Cate Blanchett and Tap Dogs producer Wayne Harrison, Playing Australia seeks to pay tribute to the complexities of Australian theatre experiences, to reassess Australian theatre as a significant force in the international arena and to challenge traditional thinking on what Australian theatre can be.

Towards an Australian Drama

Author : Leslie Rees
Publisher : Sydney, Angus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Towards an Australian Drama written by Leslie Rees and published by Sydney, Angus. This book was released on 1953 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: