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Author : Hugh Hunt
Publisher : Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Making of Australian Theatre written by Hugh Hunt and published by Melbourne : F.W. Cheshire. This book was released on 1960 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485872
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
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.
Author : Geoffrey Milne
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448583X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
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.
Author : Veronica Kelly
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042002999
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s written by Veronica Kelly and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 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.
Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066773
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)
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.
Author : Jonathan Bollen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023570
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Men at Play written by Jonathan Bollen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays - from Dick Diamond's Reedy River, Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon's The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour's The One Day of the Year to David Williamson's Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett's The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham's The Boys and Nick Enright's Blackrock. The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book's contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.
Author : Leslie Rees
Publisher : Angus & Robertson Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Making of Australian Drama written by Leslie Rees and published by Angus & Robertson Publishers. This book was released on 1973 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868193571
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Companion to Theatre in Australia written by Philip Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative alphabetical reference work covers every major development and significant figure in the history of Australian theatre, from the earliest colonial times to the present day.
Author : Julian Meyrick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004339892
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
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: Australian Theatre after the New Wave 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), analysing the growing dominance of government in shaping the nation’s theatre.
Author : Richard Fotheringham
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210039
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
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.
Author : Peter Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Peter Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
Author : Denise Varney
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783088362
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
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 132 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.
Author : John Kardoss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of the Australian Theatre written by John Kardoss and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrike Garde
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039108329
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Brecht & Co written by Ulrike Garde and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German-speaking playwrights have exercised a considerable if subtle influence on Australian theatre history. Presenting a range of paradigmatic case studies, this book offers a detailed account of Australian productions of German-language drama between 1945 and 1996. The reception of Bertolt Brecht is used as a touchstone for analysing stagings of plays by writers such as Max Frisch, Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Handke and Franz Xaver Kroetz. In addition, more recent developments in the reception of German drama on the Australian stage are discussed.
Author : Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286240
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Unsettling Space written by Joanne Tompkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theatre stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. Covering a wide range of plays it will have wide appeal for issues of space, spatiality and territory in all forms of theatre, in all nations.
Author : Gabrielle Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Make it Australian written by Gabrielle Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Performing Group, or APG, helped to bring about a profound change in Australian theatre and nurtured the talents of a generation of writers and performers who have become household names including Max Gillies, David Williamson, Graeme Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Sue Ingleton and Grieg Pickhaver (aka H G Nelson). Yet to date the only published full-length accounts of the group have been written by former members. "Make it Australian!" gives an outsider's view of this influential group and the social, political and cultural context in which it operated. Through its observation of the personalities, conflicts and ideologies embedded in the APG, it challenges myths, reveals paradoxes and investigates divergences between the professed aims of its members and what the group did. This is the first critical history of APG and the book traces the group's development from its beginnings at La Mama Theatre in 1968 through its flowering at the Pram Factory and to its demise in 1981. It draws on interviews with key members, reviews of productions and an analysis of significant plays.
Author : Leonard Radic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The State of Play written by Leonard Radic and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a respected theatre critic, a look at the state of Australian theatre since the 1960's.
