You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play.
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...
Historical perspectives - Critical perspectives.
AUSTRALIAN THEATRE in the 1990s is a vigorous enterprise displaying the energies and contradictions of a multicultural society. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Australian theatre and drama surveys the emergence and directions of the new theatrical energies which have challenged or redefined the Australian 'mainstream': Aboriginal, multicultural, Asian-Australian, women's, gay and lesbian, community and young people's theatre; and charts the exciting growth of physical theatre. The contributors assess the impact of evolving funding and industrial priorities, and examine the theoretical and cultural debates surrounding Australian playwriting and theatre-making from the 1970s Vietnam dramas to the postmodern present.
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...
'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.
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.