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First produced in London in 1706. Produced in Australia by convicts on 4 June 1789.
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Fiction and Fakements in Colonial Australia
2020
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criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , September vol. 23 no. 3 2020; (p. 360-370)'The imaginations of convicts in Australia became attuned to the pairing of opposites and this led to strange tensions in their way of representing things. On Norfolk Island the meanings of words were reversed, so that ‘good’ meant ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ meant ‘beautiful’. This undermining of official meanings produced the argot called the ‘flash’ or ‘kiddy’ language of the colony. Designed at first to keep private sentiments from being inspected, it eventually supported a system of dissident actions called ‘cross-work’ or ‘cross doings’. One word loomed large amidst these inversions: ‘fakement’, meaning booty, forgery or deceit. The verb has more extensive meanings: rob, wound, shatter; ‘fake your slangs’ means break your shackles. It also meant performing a fiction and accepting the consequences of it.' (Publication abstract)
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Tale of a Theatre Playbill
2007
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criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , December vol. 18 no. 3 2007; Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 46-47) Sylvia Marchant tells how Australia's earliest printed document, a small theatre playbill printed in Sydney and dated 30 July 1796, came to be in the National Library's Collection. -
Reviewing Australia's First Performance : The Recruiting Officer in Sydney 1789
2002
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— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 40 2002; (p. 26-57) -
Consuming Theatre: Linguistic Colonialism in Thomas Keneally's "The Playmaker"
1990
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— Appears in: Australian Studies , December no. 4 1990; (p. 27-34) -
Theatrical Conviction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 June 1990; (p. 4)
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Fellowship of Australian Writers
1933
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 May vol. 5 no. 5 1933; (p. 78-79) Myers reports on Dunbabin's paper "Literature and Whale Oil" and Gould's plans to stage The Recruiting Officer. -
Fellowship of Australian Writers [Meeting Report]
1933
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column
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 June vol. 5 no. 6 1933; (p. 93) -
The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1968
1968
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essay
— Appears in: North , no. 6 1968; (p. 23-25) -
Tale of a Theatre Playbill
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , December vol. 18 no. 3 2007; Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 46-47) Sylvia Marchant tells how Australia's earliest printed document, a small theatre playbill printed in Sydney and dated 30 July 1796, came to be in the National Library's Collection. -
Our Early Drama
1931
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essay
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 19 September 1931; (p. 12) The author discusses some of the early drama written, set, or performed in Australia.