Theatre & performing arts
Articles
- Under the Angle: Memory, History, and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
Nineteenth-century Europe was treated to the spectacle of numerous performance genres imaginatively representing the Middle Ages. In portraying this period, music, theatre, visual spectacle, and…
1 November 2011 - Marcus Clarke and the Theatre
Irvin examines Marcus Clarke's dramatic works, placing his career within a broader context of 19th century Australian theatre and its criticism.
1 May 1975 - Australia’s ‘First’ Dramatists
Discusses early Australian theatre and drama in examining the question: Who wrote the first Australian play?
1 May 1969 - Coppin - How Great? Alec Bagot’s Father of the Australian Theatre
Oppenheim takes issue with Alec Bagot's naming of George Coppin the 'father of Australian theatre', and in so doing provides a history of early Australian…
1 October 1967 - Review of Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-Cultural Transactions in Australasia by Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo, and Unsettling Space: Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre by Joanne Tompkins
The recently instigated series 'Studies in International Performance' from Palgrave Macmillan is currently providing some of the most interesting, thought provoking, and indeed necessary research…
1 October 2008 - A Patrick White Sketch
Discusses a dramatic sketch (‘Peter Plover’s Party’) by Patrick White written for a performance in London.
1 May 1986 - The One-Actor Play in Australian Drama
Provides a history of the one actor play in Australian theatre history, beginning in the early 19th century. Case studies of individual plays both classic…
1 May 1981