Australia in 50 Plays
Australia in 50 Plays

Author: Julian Meyrick

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781760627386

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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.

Theatre and Australia
Theatre and Australia

Author: Julian Meyrick

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1350331376

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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 Plays for the Colonial Stage
Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage

Author: Richard Fotheringham

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 9780702234880

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Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.

Contemporary Australian Plays
Contemporary Australian Plays

Author: Ron Elisha

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1474278183

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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)

Modern Australian Plays
Modern Australian Plays

Author: Elizabeth Webby

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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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).