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Contemporary Australian Playwriting

Author : Chris Hay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784568
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Playwriting written by Chris Hay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the twenty-first century. In 2007, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was William Shakespeare. In 2019, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was Nakkiah Lui, a Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman. This book explores what has happened both on stage and off to generate this remarkable change. As writers of colour, queer writers, and gender diverse writers are produced on the mainstage in larger numbers, they bring new critical directions to the twenty-first century Australian stage. At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia’s leading playwrights have interrogated, problematised, and tried to make sense of the nation. Tracing contemporary trends, the book takes a thematic approach to the re-evaluation of the nation that is dramatized in key Australian plays. Each chapter is accompanied by a duologue between two of the playwrights whose work has been analysed, to provide a dual perspective of theory and practice.

Contemporary Australian Playwrights

Author : Jennifer Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Playwrights written by Jennifer Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Australian Playwrights

Author : Jennifer Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Playwrights written by Jennifer Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Belonging

Author : John McCallum
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belonging written by John McCallum and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCallum's new history explores the relationship between 20th century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by dueling impulses between nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and between artistic seriousness and larrikin populism. It explores issues such as the domineering influence of European high culture, the ongoing popularity of representational realism, the influence of popular theatrical forms, the ambivalence (between affection and aggression) of much Australian humour and satire, and the interaction between the personal and the political in drama. The strength of "Belonging" is its comprehensiveness, anyone studying an Australian play will find an account of it here in the context of the other works by its author or the time and place in which it was written. As well as a rundown of the major writers and their works, and an account of how the minor writers fitted in, the book also investigates the more obscure plays and writers about whom little has been written. This authoritative study of Australian drama gives an account of the relationship between our theatre and our sense of self while taking into account a broad range of influences that helped to shape both.

Contemporary Australian Drama

Author : Peter Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Peter Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.

Power Plays

Author : Hilary Glow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868198156
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Power Plays written by Hilary Glow and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prominence and vehemence of public debate about Hannie Rayson's Two Brothers has renewed the public interest in the power of contemporary Australian theatre. Not since the 1970s has there been such mainstream media attention on the work and role of Australian playwrights. "Power Plays" capitalises on this moment of renewed and heightened interest by investigating the why and the how of eight contemporary Australian playwrights: Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Reg Cribb, Ben Ellis, Wesley Enoch, Hannie Rayson, Stephen Sewell and Katherine Thomson. These writers are passionate about the theatre as a forum for public discussion and they interrogate current issues in their work. Their plays reflect the passing show of cultural, political and economic life in Australia, telling audiences something critical about what is going on: this is the state of play, this is what we are. The author has conducted extensive interviews with these writers and offers an extended analysis of some of their recent plays.

Contemporary Australian Drama

Author : Leonard Radic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Leonard Radic and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1960s, new theatre companies who had a passion for Australianess, were created in opposition to stuffy, mostly imported theatre of no relevance to themselves. This work gives insights on how the new drama explored Australian themes and issues, in a theatre where the playwright had pride of place.

Playing Australia

Author :
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.

Australian Contemporary Drama

Author : Dennis Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Contemporary Drama written by Dennis Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses major playwrights of this century studying theme, structure and style - Aboriginal drama - Vance Palmer - Sumner Locke Elliott - Douglas Stewart - Patrick White - Thomas Keneally - David Williamson - Michael Gow.

Contemporary Australian Plays

Author : Ron Elisha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474278183
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Plays written by Ron Elisha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out Dead White Males: "Triumphant...The neatly lined up ducks of academic absolutism are ruthlessly, and hilariously, assassinated" - Sydney Morning Herald; "Swain is a wonderful creation" - Guardian The 7 Stages of Grieving: "A subtle and complex invitation to experience something of the depth of Aboriginal grieving" - Melbourne Age. Hotel Sorrento: "Has a moody, evocative, literary sweep and scope to it" - Sydney Morning Herald Two: In 1948, in a German town, Anna comes to Rabbi Chaim Levi for Hebrew lessons. As the two study the language, their stories are gradually revealed, raising fundamental moral questions as they try to reconcile their tormented pasts and accept and renew their lives. The Popular Mechanicals: "One of the most rollickingly entertaining nights in the theatre" (Sydney Morning Herald)

John Romeril

Author : Griffiths
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004658971
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book John Romeril written by Griffiths and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Romeril has been one of the most prolific contributors to Australian theatre in the last twenty years. But since until recently few of his plays have been published, he has had inadequate recognition. As a founding member of the APG he was 'in at the start' of the revival of the so-called New Wave in Australian drama in the sixties. Romeril continues to be a leading influence in contemporary theatre. His work ranges from the well-known The Floating World (1974) to such recent successes as the community based play The Kelly Dance (1984), the mainstream drama Lost Weekend (1989) and the political play Black Cargo (1991). John Romeril is truly the great survivor of modern Australian theatre.

Sightlines

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066773
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Sightlines written by Helen Gilbert and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIGHTLINES explores Australian drama for its complex negotiations of race, gender, and postcolonialism. Drama scholar Helen Gilbert discusses an exciting variety of plays. Although focused mainly on performance, her insistent interest in historical and political contexts also speaks to the broader concerns of cultural studies. 23 illustrations.

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage

Author : Charlotte Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100044127X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage written by Charlotte Farrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky. Now a prolific opera director in Europe, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia. This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including The Dybbuk which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991, as well as King Lear (1998), The Lost Echo (2006), and Women of Troy (2008). Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed, the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with – and radical departure from – classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students, particularly those with interests in affect, contemporary performance, 'director's theatre', and tragedy, will benefit from Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage’s vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim.

Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre

Author : Richard Murphet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415882
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre written by Richard Murphet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre, Richard Murphet closely analyses the working processes of three ground-breaking late-modernist artists: Richard Foreman, Jenny Kemp and Richard Murphet. He examines their methodologies as writer/directors to gain a deeper understanding of recent experiments in theatre practice.

Contemporary Women Playwrights

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137270802
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women Playwrights written by Penny Farfan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Not Wrong Just Different

Author : Katharine Brisbane
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not Wrong Just Different written by Katharine Brisbane and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings and commentary from Australia's foremost theatre writer and Currency Press founder. 'Not Wrong Just Different' traces the development of theatre in Australia from the time that Katharine Brisbane joined the staff of the fledgling Australian in mid-1967 as its national theatre critic. The book is divided into easily navigable sections, which consist of her columns from the Australian, Theatre Australia and The National Times. From Brecht to Barry Humphries, from Chekhov to Patrick White, Katharine Brisbane's lucid account of Australian theatre is comprehensively presented in this original collection. A dedicated observer and chronicler of the arts in Australia, Katharine Brisbane is a compelling voice for our times and her book highlights the force of the arts, and especially the theatre, in civil society; demonstrating the capacity of theatre to show us who we are. Equally importantly the book is about journalism and the influence of a larrikin national newspaper in providing a forum for a national conversation at a time of turbulence and change.

Theatre and Australia

Author : Julian Meyrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350331384
Total Pages : 73 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 73 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.