Kelly argues that the resonant presentation of catastrophic effects of war in the plays of Sydney Tomholt makes them important early examples of modernist drama.
'We left our Country for our Country's good' about sums up what is generally known about the convict actors who ingeniously improvised, organised and pushed…
Realism, as this useful comparative study reminds us, is the most problematical and paradoxical of dramatic styles. As an aesthetic, theatrical or even political programme…
Explores the suite of theatrical imagery in depicting the authorial personae developed in the Bulletin’s theatrical journalism: a collective identity masquerading under the name…
Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry…
There are intriguing similarities between the lives of Sumner Locke Elliott and Louis Esson. Both felt themselves pioneers in particularly philistine, early twentieth-century provincial culture…
The appearance of two major biographies of prominent colonial men of letters, both immigrants to Victoria, is symptomatic of a movement to reassess the achievements…
Given that a primary function of documenting the past is also to learn about the present the long-awaited compilation The Australian Stage serves as a…
It is not particularly easy to get a complete, accurate or sympathetic picture of nineteenth century drama and theatre in Australia such that students (who…