Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 - 1993) and Open City (1987 - ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory to analyse performances by these artists, as well as theatre productions by Jenny Kemp and others. These performance practitioners are considered as part...
Benedict Andrews: Collected Plays (Oberon Modern Playwrights)
by Benedict Andrews
Benedict Andrews is an internationally renowned theatre and opera director, a film-maker and a poet. This volume presents the first collection of original plays by a theatre-maker at the top of his game. Includes the plays Like A Sun, Every Breath, The Stars, Geronimo and Gloria. Introduction by Marius von Mayenburg.
Le Theatre Mauricien de Langue Francaise Du Xviiie Siecle Au Xxe Siecle, Le
by Maria Clara Pellegrini
A snappy, surreal farce from one of Australia's most promising playwrights.
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey
Storming Mont Albert By Tram (Illuminated Manuscripts, #1)
by Paul Michael Davies
Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the 21st Century. In 2007, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was William Shakespeare. In 2019, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was Nakkiah Lui, a Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman. This book explores what has happened both on stage and off to generate this remarkable change. A...
Bill is sustained by his deep sense of a wider culture and an improving world. The only thing the human race needs to do is learn. When he meets a person who embodies this idea, he naturally likes them. Especially if his wife doesn't. Set at the end of the 1950s, Scenes from the Back of Beyond, explores the comfort, hopes and fragility of family life in a new Sydney suburb. Scenes from the Back of Beyond opened at the Royal Court Theatre in November 2006.
Australian Women's Drama
by Alma de Groen, Dorothy Hewett, Noelle Janaczewska, Eva Johnson, Jenny Kemp, Tes Lyssiotis, and Suzanne Spunner
Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by James Wenley
Aotearoa New Zealand in the Global Theatre Marketplace offers a case study of how the theatre of Aotearoa has toured, represented and marketed itself on the global stage. How has New Zealand work attempted to stand out, differentiate itself, and get seen by audiences internationally? This book examines the journeys of a dynamic range of culturally and theatrically innovative works created by Aotearoa New Zealand theatre makers that have toured and been performed across time, place and theatrica...
