Patrick White as Playwright
Author | : J. R. Dyce |
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Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : J. R. Dyce |
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Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1743327560 |
“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions … This is an essential insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White’s novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly.” - Jonathan Dunk, Australian Book Review One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting. In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White’s complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Author | : May-Brit Akerholt |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051830057 |
Patrick White was one of the world's main literary figures, but often neglected as a playwright outside Australia. His first four plays, performed between 1961-1965, were instrumental in changing the directions of Australian theatre. This book presents an overview of Patrick White's life and work, as well as a critical analysis of his plays.
Author | : David Marr |
Publisher | : Random House Australia |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1742747779 |
The award-winning and bestselling biography of Australia's only Nobel Prize-winner for Literature. 'I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick White Patrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biography draws not only on a wide range of original research but also on the single most difficult and important source of all: the man himself. In the weeks before his death, White read the final manuscript, which for richness of detail, authority and balance is stunning.Throughout his exciting narrative, Marr explores the roots of White's writing and unearths the raw material of his remarkable art. He makes plain the central fact of White's life as an artist: the homosexuality that formed his view of himself as an outcast and stranger able to penetrate the hearts of both men and women. Gracefully written and exhaustively researched, Patrick White is a biography of classic excellence - sympathetic, objective, penetrating and as blunt, when necessary, as White himself.
Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1783088362 |
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 | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448161711 |
Happy Valley is Patrick White’s first novel, published in London in 1939 when White was twenty-seven. It was praised by, among others, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen, and won the Australian Literature Gold Medal in 1941, but, fearing that he had libelled one of the families portrayed in the novel, White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape. I must get away, thinks Dr Oliver Halliday, thinks Alys Browne, thinks Sidney Furlow. But Happy Valley is not a place that can be easily left, and White’s vivid characters, with their distinctive voices, move bit by bit towards sorrow and acceptance.
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868199313 |
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Shepherd on the Rocks (8 men 6 women), Big Toys (2 men 1 woman), Netherwood (6 men 6 women), and Signal Driver (2 men 2 women).
Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1783088370 |
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 | : May-Brit Akerholt |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2023-12-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9004658394 |