Transfigured stages [electronic resource] : major practitioners and theatre aesthetics in Australia / Margaret Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Margaret.

Series:

Australian playwrights ; monograph no. 14.

Australian playwrights ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Australia.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of post dramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980's and 1990's. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 – 1993) and Open City (1987 – ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory to analyse performances by these artists, as well as theatre productions by Jenny Kemp and others. These performance practitioners are considered as part of an international paradigm attesting to forms of theatre that no longer operate according to the established principles of drama. This book also highlights the complexity of Indigenous theatre through its analysis of the Mudrooroo-Müller project staged in 1996.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

List of Figures

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Open City and the Politics of the Everyday

The Sydney Front and Grotesque Realism

Jenny Kemp’s Landscapes of the Psyche

The Aboriginal Protesters Confront the Post-dramatic Text

An International Perspective on the Post-dramatic Theatre Text

(Trans)forming the Lexicon of “Theatre” in Australia

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0055-6

OCLC:

743298882