Denise Varney, Sandra D'Urso

Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White' details the rejection of two Patrick White plays - 'The Ham Funeral' and 'Night on Bald Mountain' - by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783088362
• Artikelnr.: 54221992

Autorenporträt

Denise Varney is professor of theatre studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. She publishes on Australian theatre, feminist and women's theatre, theatrical modernism, and theatre and ecology.

Sandra D'Urso holds a PhD in performance studies and is currently a researcher at the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia. D'Urso has published in the areas of theatre and politics, performance art in the twenty-first century, Australian aesthetic modernism and the plays of Patrick White, as well as in contemporary Australian poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Archive, Governance and Sovereignty
2. 'Words Fail Me': The Ham Funeral and the 1962 Adelaide Festival
3. Night on Bald Mountain and the 1964 Adelaide Festival
4. The 'Clowns' Who 'Cling to the Past ': Sovereign Decision and the Practice of Exclusion
5. The Sovereignty of the Plays and Opportunities for New Publics
Index.