Playing Australia : : Australian theatre and the international stage /

Playing Australia : : Australian theatre and the international stage / / Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley Smith.

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 inte...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Australian Playwrights ; 9
VerfasserIn:
Schafer, Elizabeth,
Bradley Smith, Susan,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bradley Smith, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Australian Playwrights ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by the Series Editor Acknowledgments Contributors
  • List of photographs
  • Susan BRADLEY SMITH and Elizabeth SCHAFER: Introduction
  • I. Playing Australia to Australia
  • 1. Helen GILBERT: Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire
  • 2. Susan CROFT: 'A new untravelled region in herself': women's school plays in late
  • nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia
  • 3. Julian MEYRICK: Sightlines and bloodlines: the influence of British theatre on Australia in the post-1945 era
  • 4. Elizabeth SCHAFER: Reconciliation Shakespeare? Aboriginal presence in Australian Shakespeare production
  • II. Playing Australia abroad: colonial enactments
  • 5. Petra TAIT: 'The Australian Marvels': wire-walkers, Ella Zuila and George Loyal, and geographies of circus gender body identity
  • 6. Katherine NEWEY: When is an Australian playwright not an Australian playwright? The case of May Holt
  • 7. Elizabeth SCHAFER: A tale of two Australians: Haddon Chambers, Gilbert Murray and the imperial London stage
  • 8. Susan BRADLEY-SMITH: Inez Bensusan, suffrage theatre's nice colonial girl
  • III. Playing Australia abroad: the late twentieth century
  • 9. Michael BILLINGTON: Cricket and theatre: Australians observed
  • 10. Richard CAVE: What price a global culture? (or can you hope to clone a Tap Dog?)
  • 11. Margaret HAMILTON: International fault-lines: directions in contemporary Australian performance and the new millennium
  • 12. Susan BRADLEY SMITH: Rhetoric, reconciliation and other national pastimes: showcasing contemporary Australian theatre in London
  • 13. Playing Australia in the theatre: an interview with Cate Blanchett
  • Index.

Similar Items