Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji

Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760625849
Category : Artists, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Namatjira's most famous Indigenous, watercolour artist and the first to achieve commercial success, but his story is hardly known. Albert Namatjiras story resonates today as strongly as it did 50 years ago, providing a lens through which we can see the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians both in the past and the present. Ngapartji Ngapartji -- Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity -- co-created with Trevor Jamieson -- this play is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga. (Namatjira -- 4 male Ngapartji Ngapartji -- 10 male, 3 female & choir).

Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage

Author: Susanne Julia Thurow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000682188
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin’s Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss’ I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists’ engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.

Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji

Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868199221
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji go right to the heart of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience. These stories of family, friendship, land, myth, life and death are contextualised within the social and political framework of their times. They resonate universally, yet at the same time capture unique moments in Australian history and experience. Namatjira -- The moving story of Albert Namatjira (1902-1959). Namatjira was Australia's most famous Indigenous, watercolour artist and the first to achieve commercial success, but his story is hardly known. Albert Namatjira's story resonates today as strongly as it did 50 years ago, providing a lens through which we can see the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians both in the past and the present. Ngapartji Ngapartji -- Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity -- co-created with Trevor Jamieson -- this play is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga. (Namatjira -- 4 male & 2 musicians; Ngapartji Ngapartji -- 10 male, 3 female & choir)

Namatjira

Author: Scott Rankin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868199160
Category : Art, Aboriginal Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Albert Namatjira was a man of firsts: the first successful indigenous artist and the first indigenous man to be made an Australian citizen. At the height of his fame in the 1950s Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your lounge room. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man. Namatjira is a whole-hearted tribute to a great man.

Our Day Out

Author: Willy Russell
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472536568
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. 'The skill and zest of the show . . . derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children . . . I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The Times This edition contains the music to the play.

The Weir

Author: Conor McPherson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822217060
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: In a bar in rural Ireland, the local men swap spooky stories in an attempt to impress a young woman from Dublin who recently moved into a nearby haunted house. However, the tables are soon turned when she spins a yarn of her own.

City of Gold

Author: MEYNE. WYATT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760622695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Young actor Breythe left Kalgoorlie dreaming of a dazzling career.Now he's found himself starring in a controversial Australia Day ad that pays big, but draws the ire of his mob. Racism is subtle but persistent in an industry where directors request he darken up for 'authenticity' and typecast him as 'tracker', 'drinker' or 'thief'. Returning home, Breythes just as alienated from country and lore. His cultural capital distances him from furious brother Mateo and activist sister Carina, all of them struggling with regret and responsibility after their fathers death. Meyne Wyatt burst onto the acting scene in 2011s Silent Disco at Griffin, going on to grace our screens (The Sapphires, Redfern Now, Mystery Road) and star on the Broadway stage (Peter Pan). Now he returns to the Stables as a playwright who is as courageous as he is merciless. It may be unclear where character ends and creator begins. City of Gold is a howl of rage at the injustice, inequality and wilful amnesia of this countrys 21st century. Its an urgent play for our moment from a vital new voice. As Childish Gambino sings across the Pacific This is America, Meyne Wyatt calls back loudly This is Australia.

Honour

Author: Joanna Murray-Smith
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822216834
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: After thirty-two years, a marriage shatters into pieces. Acclaimed journalist Gus leaves Honor, a poet, wife and mother, for Claudia, a bright young journalist not much older than his and Honor's twenty-four-year-old daughter, Sophie. In

Modesty

Author: Clifton Fahie Jr
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1637108621
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Prepare to enter a world where a nation so great is finally tested as if jackals and lions collide. Will Valkar be a jackal or a lion?

Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613–1713

Author: Ms Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409476340
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
In the field of seventeenth-century English drama, women participated not only as spectators or readers, but more and more as patronesses, as playwrights, and later on as actresses and even as managers. This study examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century, specifically between 1613 and 1713, which represent the publication dates of the first original tragedy (Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam) and the last one (Anne Finch's Aristomenes) written by a Stuart woman playwright. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's tragedies and tragicomedies. In examining the whole of the century from a gender perspective, this project breaks away from conventional approaches to the subject, which tend to establish an unbridgeable gap between the early Stuart period and the Restoration. All in all, this study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the evolution of English drama as well as offering an unprecedented reconstruction of the genealogy of seventeenth-century English women playwrights.