Australian Theatre After The New Wave


Australian Theatre After The New Wave
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Australian Theatre After The New Wave


Australian Theatre After The New Wave
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Author : Julian Meyrick
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-09-25

Australian Theatre After The New Wave written by Julian Meyrick and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Drama categories.


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.



Theatre Australia Un Limited


Theatre Australia Un Limited
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Author : Geoffrey Milne
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-28

Theatre Australia Un Limited written by Geoffrey Milne and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.


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.



Make It Australian


Make It Australian
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Author : Gabrielle Wolf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Make It Australian written by Gabrielle Wolf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.


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.



Australia In 50 Plays


Australia In 50 Plays
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Author : Julian Meyrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-18

Australia In 50 Plays written by Julian Meyrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with Australia categories.


AUSTRALIA IN 50 PLAYS is Julian Meyricks lively and accessible account of the remarkable relationship between our national drama and our national life, examining fifty outstanding plays of diverse content and style that have appeared in the 120 years since Federation. Energetic, entertaining and original, Meyrick shows the key contribution drama has made to the development of modern Australia through its role in the major issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the impact of two world wars, the ravages of the Great Depression, the changing role of women, the gradual acknowledgement of First Nations culture, the social liberation of the 1970s, and the economic rationalism of the 1990s. It argues for an expansive idea of nationhood as a key driver of debate in the political, social and cultural challenges that face contemporary Australia, while exploring the surprising links between our drama, our history and our collective life.



John Romeril


John Romeril
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Author : Gareth Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 1993

John Romeril written by Gareth Griffiths and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Drama categories.


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.



Theatre And Australia


Theatre And Australia
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Author : Julian Meyrick
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-25

Theatre And Australia written by Julian Meyrick and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Drama categories.


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.



Australian Theatre Modernism And Patrick White


Australian Theatre Modernism And Patrick White
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Author : Denise Varney
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2018-09-15

Australian Theatre Modernism And Patrick White written by Denise Varney and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Performing Arts categories.


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.



The Routledge Companion To Australian Literature


The Routledge Companion To Australian Literature
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Author : Jessica Gildersleeve
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-22

The Routledge Companion To Australian Literature written by Jessica Gildersleeve and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.


In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan, and the development of new, high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize, have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration, considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes, as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms, as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities, this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with, produces and is produced by its context, provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures, cultures, and histories, and the social function of literary texts.



Contemporary Australian Playwriting


Contemporary Australian Playwriting
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Author : Chris Hay
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-29

Contemporary Australian Playwriting written by Chris Hay and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with Drama categories.


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.



A Companion To Australian Literature Since 1900


A Companion To Australian Literature Since 1900
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Author : Nicholas Birns
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2007

A Companion To Australian Literature Since 1900 written by Nicholas Birns and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Collections categories.


A fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.