Drama & theatre criticism
Articles
- Review of The Making of Australian Drama: A Historical and Critical Survey from the 1830s to the 1970s by Leslie Rees
Leslie Rees' The Making of Australian Drama—enlarged and updated from Towards an Australian Drama (1953) —is absorbing to read but difficult to classify. As…
1 October 1973 - Review of Theatre Comes to Australia by Eric Irvin, and A Family of Brothers: The Taits and J.C. Williamson; a Theatre History by Viola Tait
Stone reviews two books about early Australian theatre.
1 October 1972 - Australian Bards and British Reviewers
Sykes examines British criticism of Australian plays, including a number by David Williamson, noting persistent focus on the plays as records of 'Australian life'. Sykes…
1 May 1975 - ‘Un Sans Culotte’: The Bulletin’s Early Theatre Criticism and the Masculine Bohemian Masquerade
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…
1 May 2000