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Book John Romeril

    Book Details:
  • Author : Griffiths
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-12-14
  • ISBN : 9004658971
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book John Romeril written by Griffiths and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Romeril has been one of the most prolific contributors to Australian theatre in the last twenty years. But since until recently few of his plays have been published, he has had inadequate recognition. As a founding member of the APG he was 'in at the start' of the revival of the so-called New Wave in Australian drama in the sixties. Romeril continues to be a leading influence in contemporary theatre. His work ranges from the well-known The Floating World (1974) to such recent successes as the community based play The Kelly Dance (1984), the mainstream drama Lost Weekend (1989) and the political play Black Cargo (1991). John Romeril is truly the great survivor of modern Australian theatre.

Book Men at Play

Download or read book Men at Play written by Jonathan Bollen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays - from Dick Diamond's Reedy River, Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon's The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour's The One Day of the Year to David Williamson's Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett's The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham's The Boys and Nick Enright's Blackrock. The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book's contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.

Book Radical Visions 1968 2008

Download or read book Radical Visions 1968 2008 written by Denise Varney and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The International Generation of 1968: Theatre and Culture -- The Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968-2008 -- Williamson in the Howard Years -- John Romeril - The Asian Australian Journey -- A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen -- Richard Murphet and the Wounded Subject -- Jenny Kemp - On the Edge -- Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Book White Vanishing

Download or read book White Vanishing written by Elspeth Tilley and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the vulnerable white person vanishing without trace into the harsh Australian landscape is a potent and compelling element in multiple genres of mainstream Australian culture. It has been sung in “Little Boy Lost,” brought to life on the big screen in Picnic at Hanging Rock, immortalized in Henry Lawson’s poems of lost tramps, and preserved in the history books’ tales of Leichhardt or Burke and Wills wandering in mad circles. A world-wide audience has also witnessed the many-layered and oddly strident nature of Australian disappearance symbolism in media coverage of contemporary disappearances, such as those of Azaria Chamberlain and Peter Falconio. White Vanishing offers a revealing and challenging re-examination of Australian disappearance mythology, exposing the political utility at its core. Drawing on wide-ranging examples of the white-vanishing myth, the book provides evidence that disappearance mythology encapsulates some of the most dominant and durable categories at the heart of white Australian culture, and that many of those ideas have their origin in colonial mechanisms of inequality and oppression. White Vanishing deliberately (and perhaps controversially) reminds readers that, while power is never absolute or irresistible, some narrative threads carry a particularly authoritative inheritance of ideas and power-relations through time.

Book Staging a Revolution

Download or read book Staging a Revolution written by Kath Kenny and published by Upswell. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Dobbin, Helen Garner, Evelyn Krape, Jude Kuring and Yvonne Marini mocked the ocker character beloved by Pram Factory playwrights, and performed monologues about men, sex, and how they felt "as a woman". Directed by Kerry Dwyer and produced by the Carlton Women's Liberation group, the play's frank revelations stunned audiences and shocked the Pram Factory world. Set against a backdrop of moratorium marches, inner-city cafes and share houses, and the rising tide of sexual liberation and countercultural movements, Kath Kenny uses interviews and archival material to tell the story of Betty Can Jump. On the 50th anniversary of this ground-breaking play, she considers its ongoing impact on Australian culture, and asks why the great cultural renaissance of women's liberation has been largely forgotten. She sets out her stake in this story, as a theatre reviewer today and as a child born into the revolutionary early 1970s. And she asks why feminism keeps getting stuck in mother-daughter battles, rethinking her own experience as a young feminist who clashed with Garner over the publication of The First Stone.

Book The Naked Truth

Download or read book The Naked Truth written by Graeme Blundell and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NAKED TRUTH is Graeme Blundell's personal insight into the early years of truly indepedent local theatre, the wild film industry of the seventies, the controversial rise of Australian television, and his role in each of them.

Book The English Reports

Download or read book The English Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prisoners of the Japanese

Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese written by Roger Bourke and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between December 1941 and May 1942, the Japanese army took more than 130,000 allied prisoners of war, more than a quarter did not survive their imprisonment. Here, Bourke analyses the major novels and films of the prisoners-of-war experience under the Japanese and uncovers the extent to which these fictions have influenced our beliefs.

Book Body Show s

Download or read book Body Show s written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Show/s: Australian Viewings of Live Performance asks: in what ways do physical bodies in live performance present vital and compelling expressions of ideas? This collection contains critical analyses of cultural spectacle and social identity by eighteen major Australian scholars and practitioners. It discusses and describes bodies in contemporary performance, theatre, visual art and dance; in circus and ethnographic shows; in performance training, butoh and wrestling; at gay and lesbian dance parties; and in relation to digital images. It explores historical and theoretical issues of gender and postcoloniality, technology, and the location of bodies in architectural, social and virtual spaces. Artistes and groups discussed include Sydney Front, Open City, The Performance Space, Meryl Tankard’s Australian Dance Theatre, Chrissie Parrott, the Bell Shakespeare Company, Tess De Quincey, Yumi Umiumare, Gilgul Theatre, Lyndal Jones, Stelarc, Death Defying Theatre, colonial circus, ethnographic displays, the horse as performer, and wrestling legends Gorgeous George and Ravishing Ricky Rude.

Book The Jurist

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1863
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1524 pages

Download or read book The Jurist written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre Australia  Un limited

Download or read book Theatre Australia Un limited written by Geoffrey Milne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Mercantile navy list  1848  4 issues   49  2 issues   50 53 57 61 64 71 80 81 92 1939

Download or read book The Mercantile navy list 1848 4 issues 49 2 issues 50 53 57 61 64 71 80 81 92 1939 written by Trade Board of and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sport in Australian Drama

Download or read book Sport in Australian Drama written by Richard Fotheringham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.

Book APAIS 1991  Australian public affairs information service

Download or read book APAIS 1991 Australian public affairs information service written by and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Reports  Privy Council

Download or read book The English Reports Privy Council written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).

Book A Subject Index to Current Literature

Download or read book A Subject Index to Current Literature written by Australian Public Affairs Information Service and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: