Chris Hay, Stephen Carleton

Contemporary Australian Playwriting (eBook, ePUB)

Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia's leading playwrights have interrogated, problematised and tried to make sense of the nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000784565
• Artikelnr.: 66002281

Autorenporträt

Chris Hay is Professor of Drama at Flinders University in South Australia. He is an Australian theatre and cultural historian, whose research analyses subsidised theatre for what it can reveal about national identities and anxieties. He previously held appointments at the University of Queensland, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

Stephen Carleton is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Queensland. His plays have won the Patrick White Playwrights Award and the Griffin Award for Best New Australian Play. He teaches and researches Australian drama, Gothic drama, playwriting, and theatre historiography.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage 1. Re-visioning the
Comedy 1a. "Fuck Western classics": Anchuli Felicia King and Michelle Law
in Conversation 2. Postmigrant Plays in Australia 2a. "Writing into
otherness": Michele Lee and S. Shakthidharan in Conversation 3.
Re-visioning Political Theatre and 'Aussie Naturalism' 3a. "We're very
anti-politics": Angela Betzien and Patricia Cornelius in Conversation 4.
Theatre of the Anthropocene 4a. "We're a teenage species": Andrew Bovell
and David Finnigan in Conversation 5. Re-visioning Landscape from the
Regions 5a. "Sorry about the swearing": Mary Anne Butler and Angus Cerini
in Conversation 6. Adapt, or Else 6a. "I don't adapt, I write": Kate
Mulvany and Tom Wright in Conversation 7. Imagined Lives 7a. "You gotta
glitter it up": Tommy Murphy and Alana Valentine in Conversation 8. Telling
Stories in Person 8a. "I'm a polite visitor in this world": Glace Chase and
Lally Katz in Conversation 9. Conclusion: Australian Playwriting in
Lockdown