Radical Visions 1968-2008

The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama

AvDenise Varney

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del 13 i serien Australian Playwrights

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Beskrivning

Radical Visions 1968-2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama is about a generation of Australian playwrights who came of age in the sixties. This important book shows how international trends in youth radicalism and cultural change at the time contributed to the rise of interest in alternative theatre and drama in a number of locations. It follows the career of Australia’s major playwrights — Alma De Groen, Jenny Kemp, Richard Murphet, John Romeril, Stephen Sewell and David Williamson — whose early plays were first performed at La Mama and the Pram Factory theatres in Melbourne in the sixties and seventies and who continue to make new work. The book’s dual purpose is to examine the impact of the sixties on playwriting and update the scholarship on the contemporary works with close readings of the plays of the nineties and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By analysing the recent plays, the book traces the continuing impact of left wing politics and cultural change on Australian theatre and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-01
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:502 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Australian Playwrights
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789042033542

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Associate Professor Denise Varney is in the English and Theatre Programin the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is co-author of The Dolls’ Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination and editor of Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama Since Reunification.

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"Denise Varney’s volume 13 in Rodopi’s excellent Australian Playwrights series, provocatively asks: what is the enduring impact of the late 60s upon six Australian drama and performance writers up to the present? […] Political and social context are persuasively established." - in: Journal of Theatre Research International 38.2 (2013)

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresSeries Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe International Generation of 1968: Theatre and CultureThe Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968–2008Williamson in the Howard YearsJohn Romeril – The Asian Australian JourneyA Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De GroenRichard Murphet and the Wounded SubjectJenny Kemp – On the EdgeStephen Sewell and the State of the NationConclusionBibliographyIndex