Contemporary Australian playwriting : re-visioning the nation on the mainstage / Chris Hay and Stephen Carleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hay, Chris (Drama professor), author.

Carleton, Stephen, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian drama--21st century--History and criticism.

Australian drama.

Dramatists, Australian--Interviews.

Dramatists, Australian.

Playwriting.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Multiculturalism in the theater--Australia.

Multiculturalism in the theater.

Theater--Australia--History--21st century.

Theater.

Australia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the 21st Century. In 2007, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was William Shakespeare. In 2019, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was Nakkiah Lui, a young First Nations woman. This book explores what has happened both on stage and off to generate this remarkable change. As writers of colour, queer writers and gender diverse writers are produced on the mainstage in larger numbers, they bring new critical directions to the 21st Century Australian stage. At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia's leading playwrights have interrogated, problematised and tried to make sense of the nation. Tracing contemporary trends, the book takes a thematic approach to the re-evaluation of the nation that is dramatized in key Australian plays. Each chapter is accompanied by a duologue between two of the playwrights whose work has been analysed, to provide a dual perspective of theory and practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Re-visioning the nation on the mainstage

Re-visioning the comedy

"Fuck Western classics" : Anchuli Felicia King and Michelle Law in conversation

Postmigrant plays in Australia

"Writing into otherness" : Michele Lee and S. Shakthidharan in conversation

Re-visioning political theatre and 'Aussie naturalism'

"We're very anti-politics" : Angela Betzien and Patricia Cornelius in conversation

Theatre of the anthropocene

"We're a teenage species" : Andrew Bovell and David Finnigan in conversation

Re-visioning Landscape from the Regions

"Sorry about the swearing" : Mary Anne Butler and Angus Cerini in conversation

Adapt, or else

"I don't adapt, I write" : Kate Mulvany and Tom Wright in conversation

Imagined lives

"You gotta glitter it up" : Tommy Murphy and Alana Valentine in conversation

Telling stories in person

"I'm a polite visitor in this world" : Glace Chase and Lally Katz in conversation

Conclusion: Australian playwriting in lockdown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hay, Chris (Drama professor) Contemporary Australian playwriting

ISBN:

9781032008639

1032008636

9781032008615

103200861X

OCLC:

1345517857