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Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1743327560 |
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“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 |
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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 | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9781743327609 |
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Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1783088362 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868199313 |
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Author | : J. R. Dyce |
Publisher | : University of Queensland Press(Australia) |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2013-07-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 144818987X |
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The appearance of this self-portrait by Patrick White is a literary event for which his readers and admirers have long hoped. He explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognizes very little of the self he knows. This ‘unknown’ is the man who interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but ‘unable to produce him’, he prefers to remain private – or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. But in this book is the self Patrick White does recognize, the one he sees reflected in the glass. It is a remarkable book. In a shifting sequence we learn of youth in Australia; the ‘expensive prison’, his English boarding school; Cambridge with holiday trips to Germany; London in the Blitz; RAF wartime intelligence and compensations of life in Australia. There are journeys to cities and landscapes round the world which take on more reality than places one has actually visited. He tells us whom he has loved and hated and of his opinions – political and literary. He introduces us to a host of characters from Australian cousins to Stravinsky and Queen Elizabeth – and of course to Manoly Lascaris, who in 1942 ‘became the central mandala in my life’s hitherto messy design.’ He describes what he sees in the glass’s reflection with such power that it seems no artist can have attempted or executed a self-portrait so lifelike before.
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780868196602 |
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Reissue of a play first published 1965 as part of the collection 'Four Plays'. Lonely Miss Docker is taken in by a well-meaning couple with the best of intentions when she is left homeless, but the situation does not work out. She moves into a home for the aged, where she is met with a mixed reaction. Playwright was also a novelist, and one of Australia's most renowned literary figures. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Other titles include the novel 'The Eye of the Storm' and play 'Big Toys'.
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Currency Press Pty Limited |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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In 1961, following a now-famous controversy in which Board of the Adelaide Festival rejected it, Patrick White's The ham funeral was brought to the stage by the Adelaide theatre Guild. this expressionist drama, highly European in consciousness, was the first of its kind to reach the Australian mainstage: it and the three plays which quickly followed blazed the way towards a new kind of theatrical imagination which soon began to draw with a new freedom all forms of poetry, music and the visual arts into the creation of a new kind of indigenous drama. A generation later a theatre rich in skills and resources has grown to maturity in which the plays of Patrick White have taken their place in the repertoire of the major companies.
Author | : Christos Tsiolkas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Australian literature |
ISBN | : 9780369302991 |
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