AustLit logo

AustLit

Rachel Fensham Rachel Fensham i(A19352 works by)
Gender: Unknown
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 y separately published work icon Cultural Studies Jon Stratton (editor), Rachel Fensham (editor), Allen and Unwin (publisher), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , Z1622782 series - publisher criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon Dis/Orientations : Cultural Praxis in Theatre : Asia, Pacific, Australia Rachel Fensham (editor), Peter Eckersall (editor), Melbourne : Monash University : Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies , Z902466 single work criticism
1 Not Walking Falling : Performing Intimate Immensity Rachel Fensham , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Halfway House : The Poetics of Australian Spaces 2010; (p. 195-213)
1 Conclusion: Post Revolutionary Australian Theatre Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 329-338)
1 Redistribution of Power : Hannie Rayson Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 285-328) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 49) '...discusses Rayson's participation in and contributuion to ... the turning of the wheel that would make women the key players on the Australian stage.' (p.285)
1 Pockets of Rebellion : Katherine Thomson Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 157-198)

'This chapter focuses on Katherine Thomson as a playwright who utilises the conventions of social realism and naturalism to write plays that dramatise the effects of social and economic change on the lives of fictional but realistically-based characters.' (p.158)
1 Modern Dolls, Global Spin: Joanna Murray-Smith Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 109-156) 'This chapter positions Murray-Smith and her fascination with the modulations between language, truth and reality as a global playwright of modern drama...' (p.114)
1 The Poetic Revolution Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 64-108) 'Jenny Kemp's theatre is less about a political revolution in which the writer takes up arms against gender inequality and political injustice and more about a political revolution in which expanded conditions of possibility for the psyche, particularly for women, are the key to cultural transformation.' (p.64)
1 Dolls, Revolution and Australian Theatre Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination 2005; (p. 1-63) Introduction to the selected work The Doll's Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination.
1 4 y separately published work icon The Dolls' Revolution : Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination Rachel Fensham , Denise Varney , Maryrose Casey , Laura Ginters , Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2005 Z1261220 2005 selected work criticism

'This provocative new study of Australian theatre focuses on women writers who have changed our ways of seeing Australian culture. They include Hannie Rayson on the sisterhood, Joanna Murray-Smith on generation f, Jenny Kemp on desire, Katherine Thomson on working girls, Jane Harrison on the stolen generation, Leah Purcell on black chics and Beatrix Christian on miscegenation. Drawing on the title of the ground-breaking Australian play of the 1950s, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Rachel Fensham and Denise Varney explore the social and imaginative transformation of Australian theatre in the last twenty years.' (Publication summary)
1 Making a Mythopoetic Theatre : Jenny Kemp as Director of an Imaginary Future-Past-Present Rachel Fensham , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 44 2004; (p. 52-64)
1 Modernity and the White Imaginary in Australian Feminist Theatre Rachel Fensham , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 29 no. 1 2003; (p. 7-18)
1 Untitled Rachel Fensham , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 42 2003; (p. 187-189)
— Review of Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance Helena Grehan , 2001 single work criticism
1 Untitled Rachel Fensham , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 34 1999; (p. 144-147)
— Review of Australian Women's Drama : Texts and Feminisms 1997 anthology drama
1 Untitled Rachel Fensham , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 33 1998; (p. 176-179)
— Review of Australian Women's Drama : Texts and Feminisms 1997 anthology drama
1 'A Lifelong Journey' : Alison Lyssa Rachel Fensham (interviewer), 1997 single work interview
— Appears in: Performing Women/ Performing Feminisms : Interviews with International Women Playwrights 1997; (p. 89-92) As well as commenting on her own plays, Alison Lyssa describes a theatre project with Cantonese-speaking women in western Sydney in the 1980s.
1 'Make Them Laugh, Make Them Cry, Make Them Think' : Heather Nimmo Rachel Fensham (interviewer), 1997 single work interview
— Appears in: Performing Women/ Performing Feminisms : Interviews with International Women Playwrights 1997; (p. 62-65)
1 Untitled Rachel Fensham , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 29 1996; (p. 235-238)
— Review of Playing with Time : Women Writing for Performance Colleen Chesterman , 1995 single work criticism
1 Untitled Rachel Fensham , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Span , December no. 37 1993; (p. 253-255)
— Review of National Fictions : Literature, Film and the Construction of Australian Narrative Graeme Turner , 1986 single work criticism
1 Centre Stage and Talking Back Rachel Fensham , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Modern Times , May no. 3 1992; (p. 25-26)
— Review of Wahngin Country Jack Davis , 1993 single work drama musical theatre ; Sistergirl Sally Morgan , David Milroy , 1992 single work drama
X