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Sport in Australian Drama
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.
Creating Australian Television Drama
Television drama has been the dominant form of popular storytelling for more than sixty years, shaping the imaginations of millions of people. This book surveys the careers of the central creators of those stories for Australian television—the writers who learnt how to work in a new medium, adapting to its constraints and exploring its creative possibilities. Informed by interviews with many writers, it describes the establishment of Australian television drama production, observing the way writers grasped the creative and business opportunities that television presented. It examines the development of Australian versions of the major television genres—the sitcom, the police drama, the h...
Australian Drama
Provides and historical overview of the development of Australian drama accompanied by play excerpts and activities - Includes multicultural drama, issue-based extracts, women's drama, play writing activities - How to write a play review.
Australian Contemporary Drama, 1909-1982
The book is the first to provide in one volume a cogent introduction to contemporary Australian drama from its faltering beginnings in 1909 to the mature achievements of the early 1980s. The work of the major playwrights Ray Lawler, Douglas Stewart, David Williamson, Alexander Buzo and Patrick White is analysed, as well as the work of other important but lesser known playwrights. Matters of structure, theme and style in these works are given particular attention, and the author outlines the historical and cultural milieu in the 19th century in which Australian theatre originated, and presents its development up through the modern «experimental» phase. This study is aimed at the non-Australian reader.
Contemporary Australian Drama
Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
Playing Australia
Playing Australia explores the insights and challenges that Australian theatre can offer the international theatre community. Collectively, the essays in this book ask what Australian drama is, has been, and might be, both to Australians and non-Australians, when it is performed in national and international arenas. Playing Australia ranges widely in its discussions and includes analysis of Australian practitioners playing away from home; playing with Australian stereotypes; and the relationship between play, culture, politics and national identity. Topics addressed in this diverse collection include: whiteness, otherness and negotiations of Aboriginal and Asian identities; Australian school...
Contemporary Australian Drama
In the late 1960s, new theatre companies who had a passion for Australianess, were created in opposition to stuffy, mostly imported theatre of no relevance to themselves. This work gives insights on how the new drama explored Australian themes and issues, in a theatre where the playwright had pride of place.
Australian Audiences
'Australian Audiences: A Play In Four Acts' is a most entertaining and highly unique new piece of Australian drama about audiences held between Queen Elizabeth II, in her role as Queen of Australia, with all her Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Menizes in 1954 to Scott Morrison in 2021. While the exact content of an audience between a Sovereign and Prime Minister is never full revealed due to long established convention, 'Australian Audiences' covers areas that may well have been discussed. 'Australian Audiences' is a unique piece of drama covering an area that has never been brought to the stage before. It is highly entertaining, well researched and often humorous, bringing to life a world famous figure and her many different Australian Prime Ministers over close to 70 years. It contains wonderful roles for actors and is bound to be much in demand by Australian audiences.
