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1998
Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s
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Contents
* Contents derived from the
Amsterdam,
c
Netherlands,c
Western Europe,
Europe,:Rodopi
, 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.- Old Patterns, New Energies, single work criticism (p. 1-19)
- Boundary Riders and Claim Jumpers : The Australian Theatre Industry, single work criticism (p. 20-37)
- Plays about the Vietnam War : The Agon of the Young, single work criticism (p. 38-52)
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Dis/orientations: Contemporary Asian-Australian Theatre,
single work
criticism
Jacqueline Lo looks at four Asian-Australian performances that are 'paradigmatic examples of ways of intervening in the prevailing discourses of Asia' (59).
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Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian Theatre in the 1990s,
single work
criticism
Helen Gilbert considers a wide range of Aboriginal theatre produced in the 1990s, tracing the various articulations of Aboriginality in these performances and how, in spite of difficulties and frustrations, they opened up a space for 'productive dialogue' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
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From Gay and Lesbian to Queer Theatre,
single work
criticism
Beginning with a reading of Good Works, Bruce Parr looks at a number of gay and lesbian theatre productions, and how such performances can be understood as 'making queer all sexualities and all theatre' (89).
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Recent Australian Women's Writing for the Stage,
single work
criticism
Helen Thomson surveys Australian women's writing for the stage, from 1970 to the 1990s, illustrating the diversity of feminist concerns and the forms these take in performances.
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Inter-Referentiality : Interrogating Multicultural Australian Drama,
single work
criticism
This paper examines the discourses of multiculturalism in 1990s Australian drama, operating between 'the sexiness of difference and the unattainable authenticity that multiculturalism seems to still require' (117).
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Maintaining Cultural Integrity : Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro, Italo-Australian Theatre and Critical Multiculturalism,
single work
criticism
Tony Mitchell traces the productions of Doppio Teatro (Double Theatre) 'one of the few professional Italo-Australian, bilingual, non-Anglo or 'multicultural' theatre groups which has managed to survive into the 1990s' (133). He notes mainstream critics' unsettledness in response to theatre in a language other than English (141).
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Theatre in Education : Dead or Alive?,
single work
criticism
Geoffrey Milne surveys theatre production in education in the 1990s.
- Community Stories : 'Aftershocks' and Verbatim Theatre, single work criticism (p. 168-181)
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Sidetrack Performance Group and the Postmodern Turn,
single work
criticism
Tom Burvill traces the 'cultural-political project' of the Sidetrack Performance Group through the first half of the 1990s.
- Melbourne's Women's Circus : Theatre, Feminism, Community, single work criticism (p. 195-212)
- Performing Sexed Bodies in Physical Theatre, single work criticism (p. 213-228)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Performing the Unnameable : Post Colonial Stages and Our Australian Theatre
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 -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 34 1999; (p. 171-174)
— Review of Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998 anthology criticism ; Sightlines : Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre 1998 single work criticism -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 1 1999; (p. 124-126)
— Review of Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998 anthology criticism ; Sightlines : Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre 1998 single work criticism
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Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 19 no. 1 1999; (p. 124-126)
— Review of Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998 anthology criticism ; Sightlines : Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre 1998 single work criticism -
Untitled
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 34 1999; (p. 171-174)
— Review of Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998 anthology criticism ; Sightlines : Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre 1998 single work criticism -
Performing the Unnameable : Post Colonial Stages and Our Australian Theatre
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
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