Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage write by Rebecca Clode. This book was released on 2022-06-09. Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced. Drawing from existing scholarly arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, this book deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews, and reflections gained from observing rehearsals. Focusing on four plays and their Australian productions, the book uses these examples to showcase how metatheatre has been utilised to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. It highlights metatheatre’s vital place in Australian dramatic and theatrical history and connects this Australian tradition to wider concepts in the development of contemporary theatre. This illuminating text will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian theatre (historic and contemporary) as well as those researching and studying drama and theatre studies more broadly.
Critical Celebrations
Critical Celebrations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Celebrations write by Rebecca Louise Clode. This book was released on 2015. Critical Celebrations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thesis is a study of the importance of metatheatrical strategies in Australian drama from 1979 to the present. While some attention has been paid previously to the use of metatheatrical techniques, in the work of individual playwrights such as Louis Nowra for example, there has been no study which foregrounds metatheatre as a distinctive dimension of Australian playwriting and playmaking in the last forty years. Applying arguments about metatheatre by scholars such as Hornby, Fisher and Greiner, Feldman and Boireau, the thesis argues for the importance of a distinctively Australian metatheatre that is multivalent in its capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural and artistic contexts in which Australian drama has been produced. Adapting Hornby's arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, the study deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews and reflections gained from the researcher's presence at rehearsals and as an audience member/participant in productions. Using these techniques, the study analyses four plays and their Australian productions, identifying them as vital to Australian metatheatre. These include: Dorothy Hewett's The Man from Mukinupin (1979), Louis Nowra's hitherto unexamined Royal Show (1982), Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (1988) and a recent metatheatrical work, Peta Murray's epic celebration of women's theatre, Things That Fall Over: an (anti-)musical of a novel inside a reading of a play, with footnotes, and oratorio as coda (2014). Through these four detailed case studies, the thesis demonstrates the ways in which metatheatre has been used to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations during times of national "celebration" such as the Bicentenary of 1988. It argues that metatheatre is a strategy for comment on the marginalisation of Indigenous people and on the position of women as creative writers, as well as a self-reflexive mechanism via which Australian theatre is able to celebrate its own (meta)theatrical heritage. Situating these canonical and lesser-known plays in relationship to each other and their respective production histories illuminates the particular effectiveness of metatheatre in Australian Drama in holding social and cultural critique in powerful tension with the affirmation of theatre as cause and vehicle for celebration.
Spaces of Play
Spaces of Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spaces of Play write by Kathryn J. Flaherty. This book was released on 2006. Spaces of Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre
Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre write by Peter Beaglehole. This book was released on 2023-09-29. Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Dorothy Hewett joked about needing a face-lift and sex-change to improve her standing, she drew attention to forces that shaped the production and reception of her drama. Drawing on production of her plays over four decades, and interviews with Hewett’s collaborators, this book reveals how cultural memories in theatre solidify and dissolve. Viewing theatre production as a mode of remembrance, Beaglehole grapples with Hewett as a divisive figure who was ahead of a conservative Australia. Revisiting frequently produced plays, including chapters on The Man from Mukinupin and The Chapel Perilous, as well as rarely-produced works, including Nowhere and The Tatty Hollow Story, this book articulates the ongoing relevance of Hewett’s drama to the history of theatre in Australia.
Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991
Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 write by Pirkko Koski. This book was released on 2022-03-22. Finland's National Theatre 1974–1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study analyses the Finnish National Theatre’s activities throughout the decades during which the post-war generation with its new societal and theatrical views was rising to power, and during which Europe, divided by the Iron Curtain, was maturing to break the boundaries dividing it. Pirkko Koski summarizes the activities of the Finnish National Theatre as a cultural factor and as a part of the Finnish theatre field during 1970s and 1980s. Alongside this he examines the general requirements, resources and structures for activity, including artists, places, geographical position, performances and the analysis on the societal conditions. This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of European theatre and history.
