Radical Visions 1968-2008

The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-420-3354-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

Reihe: Australian Playwrights

Radical Visions 1968-2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama is about a generation of Australian playwrights who came of age in the sixties. This important book shows how international trends in youth radicalism and cultural change at the time contributed to the rise of interest in alternative theatre and drama in a number of locations. It follows the career of Australia’s major playwrights — Alma De Groen, Jenny Kemp, Richard Murphet, John Romeril, Stephen Sewell and David Williamson — whose early plays were first performed at La Mama and the Pram Factory theatres in Melbourne in the sixties and seventies and who continue to make new work. The book’s dual purpose is to examine the impact of the sixties on playwriting and update the scholarship on the contemporary works with close readings of the plays of the nineties and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By analysing the recent plays, the book traces the continuing impact of left wing politics and cultural change on Australian theatre and society.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The International Generation of 1968: Theatre and Culture
The Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968–2008
Williamson in the Howard Years
John Romeril – The Asian Australian Journey
A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen
Richard Murphet and the Wounded Subject
Jenny Kemp – On the Edge
Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Associate Professor Denise Varney is in the English and Theatre Programin the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. She is co-author of The Dolls’ Revolution: Australian Theatre and Cultural Imagination and editor of Theatre in the Berlin Republic: German Drama Since Reunification.