Wa Drama Studies Years 11/12 Text List 2021
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John Mccallum. Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20Th Century
JASAL 9 Reviews John McCallum. Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century. Sydney: Currency P, 2009, 484+xi. ISBN: 9780868196589 AU$49.95 http://www.currency.com.au/cultural-studies-and-history.aspx John McCallum’s Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century is unlike many other books on Australian drama published this decade. Recent publications have been strongly inflected in scope, content and rhetoric by discourses of gender and race, and by the politics of feminism, sexuality, migration, post-colonialism and reconciliation. Their authors offer incisive readings of plays in performance, selectively nuanced by subjective positions, archival research on theatre productions, and the embodied phenomenology of theatrical experience. McCallum’s readings of Australian plays are also incisive and nuanced, but the book incorporates those identity-based divisions within a broader embrace. Belonging restores to the criticism of Australian drama the national scope of earlier books like Dennis Carroll’s Australian Contemporary Drama (1985), Peter Fitzpatrick’s After ‘The Doll’ (1979) and Leslie Rees’s The Making of Australian Drama (1973). Beginning with the popular 1912 stage version of Steele Rudd’s On Our Selection and the ‘nationalist theatre’ of Louis Esson and the Pioneer Players, McCallum traces the formation of Australian drama through the ‘genre playwrights’ of the 1930s and 1940s, and the ‘backyard realism’ of the 1950s and 1960s, into the New Wave of the early 1970s. In fact, McCallum dismantles the apparent coherence of the ‘New Wave’: ‘The central four—Hibberd, Romeril, Buzo and Williamson—now look like as disparate a bunch of writers as you might find’ (140). -
Andrew Bovell Has Written Extensively for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television
ANDREW BOVELL has written extensively for theatre, film, radio and television. His stage plays include Holy Day, winner of the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and AWGIE for Best Play 2002; Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? (with Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela), winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, Jill Blewitt Award and AWGIE for Best Play 1999; and Speaking in Tongues, winner of the AWGIE for Best Play 1997. Speaking in Tongues has been produced widely throughout Australia, Europe and America. Earlier plays include The Ballad of Lois Ryan, After Dinner, Ship of Fools, Shades of Blue, Distant Lights from Dark Places, Like Whiskey on the Breath of a Drunk You Love and Scenes from a Separation (with Hannie Rayson). Screenplays include Blessed (with Cornelius, Reeves and Tsiolkas; winner of Best Screenplay at the San Sebastian Film Festival), Edge of Darkness, The Book of Revelation, Head On, The Fisherman’s Wake, Strictly Ballroom (with Baz Lurhmann and Craig Pearce) and the multi- award winning Lantana. He recently completed the screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel A Most Wanted Man due for release in 2014. When the Rain Stops Falling, commissioned by Brink Productions, premiered at the 2008 Adelaide Festival of the Arts before touring to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Alice Springs. A new production opened at Perth’s Black Swan Theatre in October 2011. The play has won Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for Best Play, Adelaide Critics Circle Individual Award, AWGIE for Best Stage Play 2009, Best New Australian Work at the Sydney Theatre Awards and the Victorian Green Room Award for Best New Play. -
Razzle-Dazzle-Press-Kit.Pdf
Who said saving the world can’t be entertaining? MEDIA KIT In Cinemas: 15 March 2007 OFLC Rating: PG Running Time: 92 Minutes Publicity Catherine Lavelle 0413 88 55 95 [email protected] www.razzledazzlethemovie.com SHORT SYNOPSIS A spectacular comedy about changing the world step-by-step starring Kerry Armstrong, Ben Miller, Nadine Garner, Denise Roberts, Tara Morice, Jane Hall, Toni Lamond, Barry Crocker and Noeline Browne - Razzle Dazzle lifts the curtain on the world of children’s competitive dance. The film follows the eager members of "Mr Jonathon's Dance Academy" who, with their unique dance routines, compete for Grand Final success at Australia's most prestigious competition. Amidst parental politics, petty rivalry, creative controversy and the hysterics of pushy stage mothers, the film takes you behind the glamour and the glitter to a world where, sometimes, winning is everything! “A wonderful film, hilarious and touching. You’ll dance out of the cinema.” Ben Elton "A well observed, brilliantly performed comedy." Steve Coogan RAZZLE DAZZLE is a Film Finance Corporation Australia presentation in association with the New South Wales Film & Television Office of a Wild Eddie production. International Sales – Celluloid Dreams Australia/New Zealand Distribution – Palace Films 3 LONG SYNOPSIS RAZZLE DAZZLE is the story of one dance school and its quest for Grand Final success at the pinnacle of all dance competitions - The Sanosafe Troupe Spectacular. The dance school is run by Mr Jonathon, a teacher and choreographer who believes that through dance he can educate as well as entertain. When the documentary crew begins shooting, the year is set to be a big one for Mr Jonathon’s Jazzketeers. -
Idealism Versus Conservatism in Australian Theatre and Politics At
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Southern Queensland ePrints Facing Reality: Idealism versus Conservatism in Australian Theatre and Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. PhD Dissertation Ben Payne, BA (Hons). Abstract This dissertation aims to provide an analysis of mainstream Australian playwriting at the turn of the 21st Century. It will argue that mainstream theatre in the 1990s and early 2000s in many ways reflects the concurrent national political developments, in particular the revision of many of the dominant ideals of previous eras, such as those of the sixties. In this dissertation, I will attempt to outline briefly some of the hallmarks of the theatre of the New Wave, and their relation to the broader social movements occurring in Australia at the time. I will trace the beginnings of disillusionment and revising of these ideals in the late seventies and early eighties. The majority of the argument will then discuss the ways in which early nineties theatre engages with and frequently rebuts these earlier ideals, just as nineties politics saw a revision of many of the ideals of the sixties in society as a whole. I will argue that in the latter nineties, mainstream playwrights begin to reverse this conservative shift, reinstating a number of the ideals of the earlier period. I will demonstrate that Australian mainstream theatre at the turn of the century is integrally related to the politics of the society of the time, and that mainstream theatre demonstrates both radical and conservative tendencies through the period under consideration. -
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[Review Of] Dennis Carroll," Australian Contemporary Drama"(Rev. Ed
COVER SHEET Makeham, Paul B. (1994) Dennis Carroll, Australian Contemporary Drama. Sydney: Currency Press. Accessed from http://eprints.qut.edu.au Copyright 1994 Currency Press Dennis Carroll, Australian Contemporary Drama (rev. ed.) (Sydney: Currency Press, 1994). The original version of this book, published in 1985, was Australian Contemporary Drama 1909-1982, and it was well on the way to becoming a standard and widely- referenced text by the time Currency published this 'completely revised and updated' edition ten years later. John McCallum, writing in 1988, considered the original to be 'the best available general critical history of twentieth-century Australian drama',1 and the same is probably true of this edition, although the extent of revision is questionable. In terms of broad theoretical perspectives, Peter Holloway's anthology of essays Contemporary Australian Drama (rev.ed.) (Sydney: Currency Press, 1987) is a better book, but it isn't a critical history as such. That said, Carroll's study is by any standard a fine achievement, with succinct and perceptive readings of scores of plays, an accessible, engaging style, and a carefully sustained examination of what the author proves are distinctively Australian(ist) themes. To cite McCallum once more, the book 'tells you what it is going to do, and then it does it, no bullshit'.2 It has always struck me, though, that the word 'contemporary' is something of a misnomer in the title of a text which deals with the whole twentieth century, and that something like 'Modern Australian Drama' might have been more appropriate. The historical scope of the original has been extended here by 12 years, ranging from William Moore's first Australian Drama Night in 1909 up to 1994, though the close detailed readings really only cover plays up to 1991; the period 92-94 was tacked on following delays in publication, and there is evidence of this in a certain frantic quality towards the end. -
What I Wrote by Andrew Bovell
What I Wrote Andrew Bovell Teacher’s Notes Introduction This study guide forWhat I Wrote: Andrew Bovell has been written for senior secondary students. It provides infor� mation and suggestions for learning activities in English, Literature, Theatre Studies and Drama. What I Wrote: Andrew Bovell is a DVD on Australian playwright Andrew Bovell. Dr Tess Brady interviews Bovell and provides a critical introduction to After Dinner (1998), Scenes from a Separation (1995), Whose Afraid of the Working Class (1998), The Lantana Series Whiskey[ on the Breath of the One You Love (1992), Distant Lights from Dark Places (1994), Speaking in Tongues (1996), Lantana (2001)], Holy Days (2001), When the Rain Stops Falling (2008). The DVD also includes an investigation of Bovell’s approach to writing for the stage. What I Wrote: Andrew Bovell is one title from a series of DVDs spotlighting Australian playwrights. The series of� fers students information about the ideas and processes of the playwrights, as well as the opportunity to hear what the writers have to say about their work. Other titles available in the What I Wrote series include: Series 1: • What I Wrote: Matt Cameron • What I Wrote: Louis Nowra • What I Wrote: Hannie Rayson • What I Wrote: Katherine Thomson Series 2: • What I Wrote: Debra Oswald • What I Wrote: David Williamson • What I Wrote: �������������oanna Murray������Smith The DVDs are available from Ronin Films, http://www.roninfilms.com.au Further information about the series and film trailers can be found at: http://www.whatiwrote.com.au or on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/pinkcat1 The play scripts are available from Currency Press, http://www.currency.com.au/ About the Filmmakers Dr Tess Brady interactive websites and advertising. -
Sa Drama Studies: Stages 1 & 2 Syllabus Text
SA DRAMA STUDIES: STAGES 1 & 2 CURRENCY PRESS The performing arts publisher SYLLABUS TEXT LIST 2021 NB: there are no set texts for Drama Studies in South Australia just recommended lists of playscripts and Dramatic Innnovators; and no specific editions are listed. ________ 9780868197401 Andrew Bovell Holy Day $23.99 PB ________ 9780868199030 Speaking in Tongues $23.99 PB ________ 9781925005004 The Secret River (stage adaptation) $23.99 PB ________ 9781760620455 Things I Know to be True $23.99 PB When the Rain Stops Falling $23.99 PB _________ 9781925005240 Andrew Bovell et al. Who’s Afraid of the Working Class $23.99 PB ________ 9781854598455 Anton Chekhov Chekhov: Four Plays (The Cherry $19.99 PB Orchard/The Seagull/Three Sisters/ Uncle Vanya) ________ 9781854590909 Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine $21.99 PB ________ 9781854597441 Far Away $19.99 PB ________ 9781854590442 Mad Forest $23.99 PB ________ 9781854597434 A Number $23.99 PB ________ 9780868194547 Jack Davis The Dreamers $23.99 PB ________ 9780868191461 No Sugar $23.99 PB ________ 9780868194776 Nick Enright Blackrock $23.99 PB ________ 9780868196916 A Man with Five Children $23.99 PB ________ 9780868193601 A Property of the Clan $23.99 PB ________ 9780868195896 Nick Enright/Justin Cloudstreet $23.99 PB Monjo ________ 9781854594112 Euripides/Sophocles Greek Tragedy: Three Plays $19.99 PB (Antigone/Bacchae/Medea) _______ 9780868192116 Michael Gow Away $23.99 PB ________ 9781760626600 All Stops Out $23.99 PB ________ 9780868198286 Toy Symphony $23.99 PB ________