Author: Ray Lawler Publisher: Samuel French, Inc. ISBN: 9780573615955 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 116
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Ray Lawler Characters:3 male, 4 female Interior Set This compelling Australian play was a success in London and was hailed by critics in New York for its vigor, integrity, and realistic portrayal of two itinerant cane cutters: Barney, a swaggering little scrapper, and Roo, a big roughneck. They have spent the past sixteen summers off with two ladies in a Southern Australian city. Every year Roo has brought a tinsel doll to Olive, his girl, as a gift to symbolize their relatio
Author: Jonathan Bollen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9401205523 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 261
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How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men’s experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre’s role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays – from Dick Diamond’s Reedy River, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon’s The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year to David Williamson’s Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett’s The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham’s The Boys and Nick Enright’s Blackrock. The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book’s contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.
Author: Ray Lawler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Australian drama Languages : en Pages : 0
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First staged in 1955, no play has been more important to the history of Australian theatre than Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Twenty years later, Lawler returned to his lovable Carlton household and created two more plays: Kid Stakes and Other Times. Kid Stakes: A joyful portrait of the summer of the first doll, in which a chance encounter brings Olive and Emma, Roo and Barney, into the shabby Carlton terrace to begin a seventeen year journey of seasonal love and argument. Kid Stakes introduces the fun-loving Nancy, who has left the scene by the seventeenth summer, adding a new poignancy to the story. Other Times: The middle play of Ray Lawler's Doll Trilogy. Set during the Second World War, in late winter, when Barney and Roo are on leave from the army. Other Times is the fulcrum of the three plays in which the characters stop being kids and become adults. Middle age is looming and life is no longer just a game. Things are changed forever by Nancy's decision, setting the stage for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll: Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin canecutters and their women awaken to middle-age. The impact of The Doll cannot be over-stated. Its success both here and abroad was quickly recognised as a defining moment in Australian theatre history.
Author: Amitava Roy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Australian literature Languages : en Pages : 51
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Critical study on the play Summer of the Seventeenth DollL by Raymond Evenor Lawler, b. 1921, Australian actor, dramatist and producer.
Author: Oriel Gray Publisher: ISBN: 9781925005950 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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'A printing office of a newspaper is no place for a member of the female sex.' 1890s, regional Australia. Koolgalla is a gold town, but the gold rush is beginning to wane. In the office of the Koolgalla Argus, the editors must decide between protecting old interests and investing in the farmland of the future. The new editorial assistant, J. G. Milford, arrives - but it turns out the 'J' stands for Jenny. Written in1955, The Torrents co-won best play (Playwrights' Advisory Board) with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Yet while Lawler's play is considered a defining feature of Australian theatre, The Torrents is under-appreciated and was perhaps ahead of its time.
Author: Anica Boulanger-Mashberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780369316981 Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 152
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Insight d104 Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in - depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and structure; a chapter - by - chapter/scene - by - scene analysis; discussion of characters and relationships; highly informative section on themes, issues and concepts; discussion of different interpretations - which has come into most English courses around Australia recently; sample exam questions and answers for students to use for essay writing practise on the text; a comprehensive References list.
Author: Anica Boulanger-Mashberg Publisher: ISBN: 9781922004048 Category : Languages : en Pages : 74
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Insight Text Guide has highly visual Character Map with notes on each character and their relationships; in-depth and comprehensive background and context notes; excellent notes on genre, style and structure; a chapter-by-chapter/scene-by-scene analysis; discussion of characters and relationships; highly informative section on themes, issues and concepts; discussion of different interpretations - which has come into most English courses around Australia recently; sample exam questions and answers for students to use for essay writing practise on the text; a comprehensive References list.
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