Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s - 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 Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s write by Richard Fotheringham. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether catching Australian theatre during the 2000s or catching up now, this volume provides the reader with an overview of the decade. It reveals how Australian theatre continues to reflect the major political and social concerns of our time. Each contribution explores an important area of Australian performance so that the volume provides crucial background and insightful analysis for current theatre practice. The contributions cover political theatre, Indigenous theatre, playwrights concerned with cultural identity, key Shakespearean productions, the impact of funding and arts policy on theatre, dramaturgy and innovative projects, leading directors on rehearsal processes, theatre for young people, regional theatre including the Northern Territory, and physical theatre and Circus Oz. The book confirms the consolidation of previous artistic achievement over the decade and identifies the emergence of new trends and creative practices.
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.
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries
Actor Training in Anglophone Countries - 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 Actor Training in Anglophone Countries write by Peter Zazzali. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Actor Training in Anglophone Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Actor Training in Anglophone Countries offers a firsthand account of the most significant acting programs in English-speaking countries throughout the world. The culmination of archival research and fieldwork spanning six years, it is the only work of its kind that studies the history of actor training from an international perspective. It presents the current moment as crucial for student actors and those who teach them. As the profession continues to change, new and progressive approaches to training have become as urgent as they are necessary. Using drama schools and universities as its subjects of inquiry, this book investigates acting programs in the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Among the case studies are the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, National Theatre School of Canada, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Carnegie Mellon University. All recognized for their distinguished reputations by industry professionals and acting teachers alike, the book examines each program’s pedagogical approach, administrative structure, funding apparatus, and alumni success. In doing so, it identifies the challenges facing acting schools today and offers a new direction for training in the twenty-first century. Actor Training in Anglophone Countries will be of interest to theatre and performance scholars, artists, students, and teachers.
Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage
Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian 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 Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage write by Charlotte Farrell. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky. Now a prolific opera director in Europe, Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage accounts for the formative years of Kosky's career in Australia. This book provides in-depth engagements with select productions including The Dybbuk which Kosky directed with Gilgul theatre company in 1991, as well as King Lear (1998), The Lost Echo (2006), and Women of Troy (2008). Using affect theory as a prism through which these works are analysed, the book accounts for the director's particular engagement with – and radical departure from – classical tragedy in contemporary performance: what the book defines as Kosky's 'post-tragedies'. Theatre studies scholars and students, particularly those with interests in affect, contemporary performance, 'director's theatre', and tragedy, will benefit from Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage’s vivid engagement with Kosky's work: a director who has become a singular figure in opera and theatre of international critical acclaim.
Theatre and Australia
Theatre and Australia - 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 Theatre and Australia write by Julian Meyrick. This book was released on 2024-01-25. Theatre and Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
