Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s / / Veronica Kelly, editor.

• Superior document: Australian playwrights ; Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Kelly, Veronica,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : BRILL,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Australian playwrights ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by the Series Editor -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Old patterns, new energies -- Boundary riders and claim jumpers: the Australian theatre industry -- Plays about the Vietnam War: the agon of the young -- Dis/orientations: contemporary Asian-Australian theatre -- Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian theatre in the 1990s -- From gay and lesbian to queer theatre -- Recent Australian women's writing for the stage -- Inter-referentiality: interrogating multicultural Australian drama -- Maintaining cultural integrity: Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro, Italo-Australian theatre and critical multiculturalism -- Theatre in education: dead or alive? -- Community stories: 'Aftershocks' and verbatim theatre -- Sidetrack Performance Group and the post-modern turn -- Melbourne Women's Circus: theatre, feminism, community -- Performing sexed bodies in physical theatre -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- ILLUSTRATIONS.