Contemporary Australian Plays

Author: Ron Elisha
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474278183
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
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)

Contemporary Australian Plays

Author: Ron Elisha
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474278191
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Unsettling Space

Author: Joanne Tompkins
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286240
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
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.

Men at Play

Author: Jonathan Bollen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401205523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
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.

Contemporary Australian Drama

Author: Leonard Radic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
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.

Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s

Author: Veronica Kelly
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042002999
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
AUSTRALIAN THEATRE in the 1990s is a vigorous enterprise displaying the energies and contradictions of a multicultural society. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Australian theatre and drama surveys the emergence and directions of the new theatrical energies which have challenged or redefined the Australian 'mainstream': Aboriginal, multicultural, Asian-Australian, women's, gay and lesbian, community and young people's theatre; and charts the exciting growth of physical theatre. The contributors assess the impact of evolving funding and industrial priorities, and examine the theoretical and cultural debates surrounding Australian playwriting and theatre-making from the 1970s Vietnam dramas to the postmodern present.

Sightlines

Author: Helen Gilbert
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066773
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
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.

Ours As We Play It

Author: Kate Flaherty
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742582627
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Shakespeare's plays are permeable to the contexts in which they are performed: they take on and speak to local concerns. Early modern audiences would have experienced the humour and resonance of local identification with the plays just as we do, although the content of that identification in Australia today is uniquely our own.

Modern Australian Plays

Author: Elizabeth Webby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
Infocus Article - English Away deals with the transformations of people and their attitudes towards life and death. This detailed examination of the play looks at its structure, characterisation, and the use of naturalistic dialogue in contrast with its theatrical settings. pp. 54-64 Subjects: the journey (area of study).

48 Shades of Brown

Author: Nick Earls
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618452958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active love life is audible through the wall between their bedrooms.