Theatre Australia (Un)limited

Theatre Australia (Un)limited

Author: Geoffrey Milne

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 900448583X

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Theatre Australia (Un)limited tells a truly national story of the structures of post-war Australian theatre: its artists, companies, financial and policy underpinnings. It gives an inclusive analysis of three ‘waves’ of Australian theatrical activity after 1953, and the types of organisations which grew up to support and maintain them. Subsidy, repertoire patterns, finances and administration, theatre buildings, companies, festivals and notable productions of the commercial, mainstream and alternative Australian theatre are examined state by state, and changes to governmental policy analysed. Theatrical forms comprise not only spoken-word drama, but also music theatre, comedy, theatre-restaurant, circus, puppetry, community theatre in several forms and new mixed-media genres: physical theatre, circus, visual theatre and contemporary performance. Theatre Australia (Un)limited is the first comprehensive overview of the fortunes of Australian theatre as a national enterprise, providing the industrial analysis of the ‘three waves’ essential for the understanding of the New Wave and of contemporary drama.


Creating White Australia

Creating White Australia

Author: Jane Carey

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1920899421

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The adoption of White Australia as government policy in 1901 demonstrates that whiteness was crucial to the ways in which the new nation of Australia was constituted. And yet, historians have largely overlooked whiteness in their studies of Australia's racial past. Creating White Australia takes a fresh approach to the question of 'race' in Australian history. It demonstrates that Australia's racial foundations can only be understood by recognising whiteness too as 'race'. Including contributions from some of the leading as well as emerging scholars in Australian history, it breaks new ground by arguing that 'whiteness' was central to the racial ideologies that created the Australian nation. This book pursues the foundations of white Australia across diverse locales. It also situates the development of Australian whiteness within broader imperial and global influences. As the recent apology to the Stolen Generations, the Northern Territory Intervention and controversies over asylum seekers reveal, the legacies of these histories are still very much with us today.


Stage Turns

Stage Turns

Author: Kirsty Johnston

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0773539948

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How Canadian theatre artists are challenging traditional theatre practices and reimagining disability on stage.


Let's Go Australia 9th Edition

Let's Go Australia 9th Edition

Author: Let's Go Inc.

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-11-28

Total Pages: 818

ISBN-13: 9780312360863

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For over 40,000 years, people have been arriving awestruck on Australia, at the edge of the earth. Researched and compiled entirely by students who know how to see the world on the cheap, this guide contains insider tips and information for the socially conscious traveller.