Contemporary Australian Drama
Author | : Peter Holloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
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Author | : Peter Holloway |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
Author | : Dennis Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Leonard Radic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Helen Gilbert |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780472066773 |
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 | : Joanne Tompkins |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-11-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230286240 |
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 | : Chris Hay |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1000784568 |
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.
Author | : Dennis Carroll |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The book is the first to provide in one volume a cogent introduction to contemporary Australian drama from its faltering beginnings in 1909 to the mature achievements of the early 1980s. The work of the major playwrights Ray Lawler, Douglas Stewart, David Williamson, Alexander Buzo and Patrick White is analysed, as well as the work of other important but lesser known playwrights. Matters of structure, theme and style in these works are given particular attention, and the author outlines the historical and cultural milieu in the 19th century in which Australian theatre originated, and presents its development up through the modern «experimental» phase. This study is aimed at the non-Australian reader.
Author | : Jennifer Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geoffrey Milne |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2021-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900448583X |
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 | : Elizabeth Webby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Infocus Article - English Away deals with the transformations of people and their attitudes towards life and death. This detailed examination of the play looks at its structure, characterisation, and the use of naturalistic dialogue in contrast with its theatrical settings. pp. 54-64 Subjects: the journey (area of study).