Recently added articles from Australasian Drama Studies:
Wayne Blair in Interview
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wayne Blair, a member of the Butchala clan, is a thirty-six-year-old actor, director and writer, who works across theatre, film and television. He has worked for the Bell Shakespeare Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, Bangarra ...
The NYID Workshop: Physical Performance in Space
Oct 01, 2008; ... In September 1999 I moved from Brasilia, Brazil, to Melbourne, Australia, in order to start doctoral research on physical training for actors. For the following months I attended theatre and circus performances and workshops and interviewed a number of directors who had done or were doing ...
Nanjing Project: Chinese Acrobatics, Australian New Circus and Hybrid Intercultural Performance
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 2007 at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Derek Ives ended his characterdriven one-man physical theatre performance Bucket of Love1 with a wine bottle thrown into the air and onto the spike of a closed umbrella, supposedly causing it to open and the bottle to spill water - rain - over the ...
Moving into Performance: Using the Principles of the Alexander Technique to Underpin and Enhance an Actor's Training
Oct 01, 2008; ... What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! Born in Tasmania in 1 869, Frederick Mathias Alexander ...
Jacques Lecoq's Bouffons in Australia
Oct 01, 2008; ... In The Moving Body, Jacques Lecoq describes his explorations into bouffon, a theatrical form that uses body masking to transform actors into grotesque, outcast characters who satirise society. Lecoq researched and developed the form over thirty years, mapping the dramatic territory of the ...
Three Plays: Skin Tight, Mo & Jess Kill Susie, An Unseasonable Fall of Snow
Oct 01, 2008; ... Gary Henderson, Three Plays: Skin Tight, Mo & Jess Kill Susie, An Unseasonable Fall of Snow (Wellington: Playmarket, 2007) Relatively few New Zealand plays have been published to date. Currently, the principal outlets are The Play Press (sometimes in partnership with The Women's Play ...
Riflemind
Oct 01, 2008; ... Andrew Upton, Riflemind (Sydney: Currency Press, 2007) Although Andrew Upton has adapted a number of classic texts - Cyrano de Bergerac, Don Juan, Hedda Gabler, The Cherry Orchard and Philistines - Riflemind is only his second original play, the other being The Hanging Man commissioned ...
Number Two and Bare
Oct 01, 2008; ... Toa Fraser, Number Two and Bare (Wellington: Playmarket 2007) The Pacific diaspora to Aotearoa/New Zealand has resulted in engaging and vibrant theatre that combines the energy and traditions of Pacific storytelling and performance forms with Western cultural iconography and theatrical ...
Plays of the '50s, Volume 1
Oct 01, 2008; ... Katharine Brisbane, ed., Plays of the '50s, Volume 1 (Sydney: Currency Press, 2007) Australian collective consciousness is, like any other nation's, historical, and the first volume of Plays of the '50s edited by Katharine Brisbane provides as close an insight into its origins as could ...
Strangers Inbetween and adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's Holding the Man
Oct 01, 2008; ... Tommy Murphy, Strangers Inbetween and adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's Holding the Man (Sydney: Currency Press, 2006) Tommy Murphy, writing after Timothy Conigrave, has adapted for the stage the deceased playwright's popular novel Holding the Man, while including as an introductory play ...
Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition
Oct 01, 2008; ... Marc Maufort and David O'Donnell, eds, Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2007) With Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition, co-editors Marc Maufort and David O'Donnell provide a ...
Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007
Oct 01, 2008; ... Glenn D'Cruz, ed., Class Act: Melbourne Workers Theatre 1987-2007 (Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2007) Class Act has been put together with care and concern for recording a particular history of the Melbourne Workers Theatre (MWT) over the last twenty years, through essays and interviews ...
It Just Stopped and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 Scenes
Oct 01, 2008; ... Stephen Sewell, It Just Stopped and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: A Drama in 30 Scenes (Sydney: Currency Press, 2007) One would think that these two recent works by Stephen Sewell, both set in contemporary America, indicate that he has become ...
Stage Presence
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jane Goodall, Stage Presence (London and New York: Routledge, 2008) What does it mean to say that a performer has 'stage presence'? Is presence a tangible quality we can identify and analyse? Can it be taught? Why are some performers able to command the attention of vast numbers of ...
The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
Oct 01, 2008; ... Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi, Joe Kelleher and Nicholas Ridout, The Theatre of Soctetas Raffaello Sanzio (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) In their introduction to The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher explain what it is ...
Actors and Chairs: Towards the Genealogy of a Rehearsal Room Exercise
Oct 01, 2008; ... Could it not be that we Are here to say: house, Bridge, cistern, gate, Pitcher, flowering tree, Window - or at most: Monolith . . . skyscraper? But to say them in a way They, themselves, never knew themselves to be? from The ...
Bodies Perform Inner Emotions: Stanislavski's Legacy
Oct 01, 2008; ... The legacy in Australia Hayes Gordon brought New York-style actor training and studio workshop approaches to Australia in 1 952, and these drew on the Stanislavski-derived legacy in the USA.1 Actor training workshops of this type were almost nonexistent in 1950s Australia, and Gordon ...
Physical Practice/Imaginal Play: Undisciplining the Performer
Oct 01, 2008; ... Chicago-based performance group Goat Island 'claim [themselves] to be the legacy of': Phantom child-hoods, Japanese ghosts, frogs, Judson Church, Impossibility, General Motors Corporation, Pina Bausch, Conlon Nancarrow, St Vitus' Dance, poor soil, air raids, John Cage, Scot Carey in the ...
Traditions and Training in Rehearsal Practice
Oct 01, 2008; ... Two actors and a director are in rehearsals for a production of Patrick White's play, The Season At Sarsaparilla} They have gathered around a large table in a cavernous room on a chilly late-autumn night to discuss the characters in the script. Lyn Collingwood will play Girlie, Jacqui Mikhail ...
Influences, Institutions and Outcomes: A Survey of Masters and Doctoral Theses on Actor Training in Australia, 1979-2004
Oct 01, 2008; ... This survey provides a summary of some of the research into actor training in Australia - and the disciplinary, industrial and political issues that inform it - that has come out of the work of Higher Degree Research candidates at Australian universities in the past three decades. The survey has ...