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1 Dunsinane, Mount Macedon : Geoffrey Wright’s Melbourne Macbeth (2006) Rosemary Gaby , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , no. 4 2012; 'In recent decades Australian theatre has produced many well-received performances of Shakespeare using Australian settings and accents, so when Geoffrey Wright’s 2006 Australian-gangland adaptation of Macbeth was first publicised hopes were high that a significant Australian Shakespeare feature-film might finally have arrived. In the event, while the film did win AFI awards for production and costume design, it did not achieve anything near the kind of critical or box-office success that attended Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Romeo + Juliet or even Wright’s own 1992 Romper Stomper. Like Romper Stomper, Wright’s Macbeth was inspired by Melbourne’s underworld, anticipating the popular Underbelly TV mini-series that fictionalised the 1995-2004 Melbourne gangland wars and was first screened in 2008. While the experience of Wright’s film as a whole might resemble – both literally and metaphorically – Coleridge’s famous summation of Edmund Kean’s acting as like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning, its location provides occasion for some inspired filmic responses to the dominant image patterns of Macbeth. This paper considers the evocation of locale in Wright’s film and some of the ways its physical and social setting reimagines the play’s key motifs in contemporary Australian terms.' (Author's abstract)
1 Untitled Rosemary Gaby , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 37 no. 2 2004; (p. 105-106)
— Review of See How It Runs : Nimrod and the New Wave Julian Meyrick , 2002 single work criticism
1 Performing the Unnameable : Post Colonial Stages and Our Australian Theatre Rosemary Gaby , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: Southern Review , vol. 33 no. 1 2000; (p. 111-113)
— Review of Performing the UnNameable : An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts 1999 anthology drama poetry extract ; Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998 anthology criticism ; (Post) Colonial Stages : Critical & Creative Views on Drama, Theatre & Performance 1999 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Preludes : A Literary Annual no. 7 November Rosemary Gaby (editor), Shelley O'Reilly (editor), Barbie Kjar (illustrator), Chris Rees (illustrator), Ian Munday (illustrator), Kerryanne Foley (illustrator), 1991 Z601699 1991 periodical issue
1 y separately published work icon Preludes : A Literary Annual no. 6 October Rosemary Gaby (editor), Shelley O'Reilly (editor), Helen Wright (illustrator), Barbie Kjar (illustrator), Wayne Malm (illustrator), Ray Arnold (illustrator), 1990 Z601591 1990 periodical issue
1 Recent Tasmanian Stories Rosemary Gaby , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: Preludes : A Literary Annual , October no. 5 1989; (p. 83-85)
— Review of Summerbird and Other Stories Geoffrey Field Dean , 1989 selected work short story ; Death of a Ladies' Man and Other Stories James McQueen , 1989 selected work short story
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