Contemporary Australian Plays

Author : Joanne Tompkins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286240
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 : Peter Holloway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Peter Holloway and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.

Author : Ron Elisha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474278183
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Plays written by Ron Elisha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out Dead White Males: "Triumphant...The neatly lined up ducks of academic absolutism are ruthlessly, and hilariously, assassinated" - Sydney Morning Herald; "Swain is a wonderful creation" - Guardian The 7 Stages of Grieving: "A subtle and complex invitation to experience something of the depth of Aboriginal grieving" - Melbourne Age. Hotel Sorrento: "Has a moody, evocative, literary sweep and scope to it" - Sydney Morning Herald Two: In 1948, in a German town, Anna comes to Rabbi Chaim Levi for Hebrew lessons. As the two study the language, their stories are gradually revealed, raising fundamental moral questions as they try to reconcile their tormented pasts and accept and renew their lives. The Popular Mechanicals: "One of the most rollickingly entertaining nights in the theatre" (Sydney Morning Herald)

Author : Leonard Radic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Drama written by Leonard Radic and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485872
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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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 : Jennifer Palmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Playwrights written by Jennifer Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Contemporary Drama written by Dennis Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Chris Hay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784568
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Playwriting written by Chris Hay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ron Elisha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474278191
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Australian Plays written by Ron Elisha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturday night, small town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out Dead White Males: "Triumphant...The neatly lined up ducks of academic absolutism are ruthlessly, and hilariously, assassinated" - Sydney Morning Herald; "Swain is a wonderful creation" - Guardian The 7 Stages of Grieving: "A subtle and complex invitation to experience something of the depth of Aboriginal grieving" - Melbourne Age. Hotel Sorrento: "Has a moody, evocative, literary sweep and scope to it" - Sydney Morning Herald Two: In 1948, in a German town, Anna comes to Rabbi Chaim Levi for Hebrew lessons. As the two study the language, their stories are gradually revealed, raising fundamental moral questions as they try to reconcile their tormented pasts and accept and renew their lives. The Popular Mechanicals: "One of the most rollickingly entertaining nights in the theatre" (Sydney Morning Herald)

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066773
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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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.