Recently added articles from Australasian Drama Studies:
Postdramatic Theatre and Australia: A 'New' Theatre Discourse
Apr 01, 2008; ... The penultimate year of the twentieth century marked the publication of two highly significant books contributing to the development of local and international theatre history and theory. In 1999 Currency Press, in association with RealTime, published Performing the unNameable, the first ...
'If I Had Something To See, Would It Be Theatre?'1 - Musicians Performing the 'Musician'
Apr 01, 2008; ... Most study of musical performance has focused on the performance of the music rather than on the performance of the musician, to the extent that to talk of 'music performance' always implies the former, at the risk of rendering superfluous the latter. Yet in analysing theatrical performance, any ...
Competing Histories, Clashing Cultural Systems: Yanagai! Yanagai! Challenges the Valorisation of Testimony in the Olney Decision
Apr 01, 2008; ... In 1992, the Australian High Court's Mabo decision rejected the concept of "Terra Nullius' or 'land belonging to no one', as the basis for colonial/invader land title. This concept had been used as a basis for land ownership in Australia since it was first invoked in the case of Stuart vs ....
Darwin as the Frontier Capital: Theatrical Depictions of City Space in the North
Apr 01, 2008; ... In this article, I explore the notion of Darwin as contemporary Australian frontier capital, and use theatre as the prism through which to understand the ways in which this troping is articulated and performed - reiterated - into the popular national imaginary. Throughout the longer study from ...
Mis-recognised Knowledges: National Identity and the Unreliable Narrator in Jack Hibberd's A Stretch of the Imagination and Josephine Wilson's The Geography of Haunted Places
Apr 01, 2008; ... They've [the monodramas] homed in on the actor-audience relationship, and in some of them you have the character acting out what is perhaps a moving or tragic moment, then the actor will chop that off and say to the audience 'that's called acting.' So you're leading the audience one way and ...
Lindy Davies: A Path to a Process, Part 2
Apr 01, 2008; ... In Part 2 of this interview - Part 1 appeared in the April 2007 edition of Australasian Drama Studies - Lindy Davies continues to discuss her unique approach to training and direction. In Part 1 she discussed how she came to work in theatre as a university student in the late 1960s, the early ...
DIY Virtuosity versus Professional Mediocrity
Apr 01, 2008; ... This is the text of the annual Rex Cramphorn Memorial Lecture, delivered by Scott Rankin as part of the Festival of Sydney in January 2008. Rex Cramphorn was one of the key practitioners to emerge from the renaissance of Australian theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. His work ranged from the ...
Poses Plastiques: The Art and Style of 'Statuary' in Victorian Visual Theatre
Apr 01, 2008; ... Sometimes dismissed as practitioners of a humble variant of pornography, specialists of a Victorian performance style known as "poses plastiques' mastered the art of manipulating the body into highly stylised and apparently motionless 'attitudes' to resemble so-called 'living statues'. Most ...
The Larrikin's Hop: Larrikinism and Late Colonial Popular Theatre
Apr 01, 2008; ... Along with the shearer, the suffragist and the bohemian, the larrikin is one of the standard characters through which late colonial Australia is imagined. Time and again, we hear the same things said about him: that his name probably came from the expression 'larkin' about'; that he could be ...
More Playful than Anxious: Cross-dressing, Sex-impersonation and the Colonial Stage
Apr 01, 2008; ... This article has been written to begin to bridge an enormous gap in Australian theatre history. Despite the many scholarly articles and books that have emerged in the past twenty-five years from Europe and the United States exploring the issue of cross-dressing, masquerade and sex impersonation ...
'They Watch Me As They Watch This'1 - Alfred Jarry, Symbolism and Self-as-Performance in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Apr 01, 2008; ... Since its production in 1896, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi has been considered amongst the most famous events in theatre history, privileged as a 'necessary inclusion in any responsible history of modem theatre as a whole, and avant-garde theatre in particular'.2 The opening night is commonly ...
La Boite Theatre Company: A Distinctive History
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Australian repertory societies and little theatres that flourished between the 1920s and 1960s are acknowledged by Katharine Brisbane as 'the parents of our national theatre' and the forces that 'created the climate out of which came the demand for an Australia Council.' Yet, by the end of ...
Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Apr 01, 2008; ... Vivienne Cleven, Wesley Enoch, David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle, Jane Harrison and David Milroy, Contemporary Indigenous Plays (Sydney: Currency, 2007) This collection of significant and groundbreaking plays by Indigenous Australian writers brings together some of the most innovative ...
Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre
Apr 01, 2008; ... Joanne Tompkins, Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) In recent critical discourse, Freud's concept of 'the uncanny' has been used to describe a cultural anxiety - to invoke a sense of 'unsettled settlement' - which an ...
Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, 1967-1990
Apr 01, 2008; ... Maryrose Casey, Creating Frames: Contemporary Indigenous Theatre, 1967-1990 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004) Maryrose Casey's Creating Frames is a worthy addition to theatre history in Australia, a field bedeviled by the ephemeral nature of its subject and the ...
Frankly Acting
Apr 01, 2008; ... John Nobbs, Frankly Acting (Brisbane: Theatre Press, 2006) Chapter 18 of Frankly acting arrives three-quarters of the way through the book, with no warning or introduction. 'Ten years talking: a short walk through Suzuki training' is an essay written some years before the idea of the ...
and what remains
Apr 01, 2008; ... Miria George, and what remains (Wellington: Tawata Press, 2007) The Mäori culture has resided in Aotearoa/New Zealand for nearly a thousand years, and its erosion through colonisation, globalisation and government policy is neatly allegorised in Miria George's play and what remains. The ...
The Stukeley Plays: The Battle of Alcazar by George Peele; The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley
Apr 01, 2008; ... Charles Edelman, ed. The Stukeley Plays: The Battle of Alcazar by George Peele; The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005) The Revels Plays Companion Library It's a wonder Thomas Stukeley didn't end up ...
Etienne Decroux
Apr 01, 2008; ... Thomas Leabhart, Etienne Decroux (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) Thomas Leabhart, Professor of Theatre, Editor of Mime Journal and former disciple of Decroux, is well qualified to provide an account of the life and visionary work of Etienne Decroux, regarded by many as the ...
The Mask Handbook: A Practical Guide
Apr 01, 2008; ... Toby Wilsher, The Mask Handbook: A Practical Guide (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) The last decade has seen a proliferation of books that emphasise the significance of mask work as a revelatory tool of actor training. The values of physical theatre training has gathered momentum ...