Not wrong--just different : observations on the rise of contemporary Australian theatre / Katharine Brisbane ; foreword by Robert Drewe
- Bib ID:
- 3510871
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Brisbane, Katharine
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Strawberry Hills, N.S.W. : Currency Press, 2005
- ix, 370 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0868197777
- 0868197645
- Summary:
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Anthology of writings and commentary from Australia's foremost theatre writer. Traces the developement of theatre in Australia up to today's state of the performing arts. From Brecht to Barry Humphries, from Chekov to Patrick White, this lucid account of Australian theatre is presented comprehensively in this original collection.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Part I: The Challenges 1967-68 9
- The Role of the Critic 11
- Incident at Vichy: A Look at the World Outside 12
- Triumph for Two Plays and One Man 14
- Democracy and the Trust 17
- The Wind of Change is Blowing 20
- The Independent Repertoire 22
- Herman Melville's Tragic Vision 24
- It's a Mini-boom 26
- Hedda as a Young Woman 28
- Theatre for the Space Age 29
- Staircase: Behind the Camp Humour 31
- Confusion and Conflict over Culture 33
- Bring Us a Diaghilev 36
- Perth Festival: Blasts of Stage Discord 40
- Coming Out Fighting: The Case of Fortune and Men's Eyes 43
- Mobilising for the Big Arts Battle 48
- The Old Tote: A Duty to Lose Money 52
- Actors of a New Breed 54
- America Hurrah! Landmark in Instant Imagery 58
- Away from the Chaos: Council Begins Work 60
- Guerrillas in Brisbane 63
- Brisbane: A Difficult City 65
- Death of the Palace Theatre 68
- Friends of America Hurrah! Protest 70
- Part II: Seeing Progress 1968-70 73
- Barry Humphries' Flower for the Dead Heart 74
- Three Sisters: Chekhov in a Thousand 76
- Stirring Up and Stripping Down 78
- Help for the Top Dogs 82
- Sense on Subsidies 84
- Keeping Theatre Clean 89
- Henry IV: Top Shakespeare 92
- The Parade Opens: Old Tote Comes Alive 94
- Thar's Gold in Them Thar Halls 96
- London: Life Among the Puppet People 100
- Avignon: The New French Revolution 103
- Berlin: Brecht Rediscovered 107
- ZOrich: A Child's Brutal View of Historical Horrors 109
- Hellebaek, Denmark: Sydney's Unfinished Symphony 111
- Warsaw: Mind Plus Matter 117
- New York: Stifled By Nakedness 121
- The Winter's Tale: Adelaide's Magical Transformation 125
- Our Hair is Better than Most 127
- Part III: The Tide Turns 1970-71 131
- Investigating the Ethos 131
- King O'Malley, the Larrikin Hero 133
- The QTC: A Small Miracle of Efficiency 137
- Robin Lovejoy: The Right to Make a Mistake 139
- Guthrie's Oedipus: Shedding the Temporal 143
- The Bacchoi in Brisbane 145
- APG: Great New Start for Drama Group 147
- The Invincibility of Major Biggles 149
- The Chapel Perilous: Playwright's Perilous Journey 152
- Tribal Language, Vacant Gestures 155
- A Reign of Terror at the Parade 158
- Adelaide Company Shows its Strength 161
- Not Wrong
- Just Different 163
- Part IV: The New Wave Rolls 1971-72 169
- The Philanthropist: The Heart on the Anatomist's Slab 169
- John Bell's Arturo Ui: Today America, Tomorrow the World 171
- Hands Down Gourds: Inexplicable Evening 173
- White with Wire Wheels: The Valiant and the Avenging Angel 174
- Chicago, Chicago: Our Underground Talent Breaks to the Surface 176
- The Critic as Advocate 177
- Cramphorne's Orestes: A New Dramatic Language 181
- Burke's Company: The Marks of Isolation 182
- Don's Party: Study of Inertia 184
- The Removalists: The Psychology of Assault 186
- Putting the Arts in the Environment 188
- The Australian Performing Group: Raising the Banner 191
- Jesus Christ Superstar: Strictly Secular Miracles 192
- A Stretch of the Imagination: Taking Interest in the Bare, Forked Animal 195
- Rooted: Comic Flowering of the Buzo Genius 198
- A Royal Requiem 201
- The Sound of Our Own Voice 207
- Don's Party: An Ecstatic New Comedy Finds an Audience 210
- Inside an Intricate Web of Dependence 212
- The Chocolate Frog: Laughter without Bitterness from a Prison Cell 214
- Bon-bons and Roses for Dolly 216
- Meeting Our Blacks 218
- Part V: Into the Mainstream 1973-74 221
- Actors' Equity Takes a Stand 222
- Amateur Hour in the Arts World 224
- The Australian Council for the Arts: A Progress Report 227
- Opening Tonight in the Athens of the South 230
- Summer of the Seventeenth Doll: A Paean for an Old-fashioned'Playwright 232
- You've Got to Make Something Happen 234
- Richard II: The Time for Temporising is Over 237
- The Marsh King's Daughter: Complexity in Simplicity 239
- Clifton Pugh and the Rising Bureaucracy 241
- One Hundred Years of What? 244
- The Floating World: Unruly Masterpiece 246
- Part VI: Consolidation 1976-85 249
- A Toast to Melba 250
- Rookery Nook / Here Comes the Nigger 252
- The Late Flowering of Ray Lawler 256
- Nimrod's Much Ado About Nothing 262
- A Tale of Two Cities 265
- Round Up 1977: The IAC Inquiry 272
- Goodbye Gloria 277
- Paris Theatre: An Act of Faith 281
- The Cassidy Album 285
- A Cheery Soul: Exultant Debut 288
- Melbourne Stasis 292
- Arts Come Out Fighting 296
- Dr Pascoe's Business 301
- Theatre of Panache 307
- Nimrod Faces Renewal Task 312
- Rise of the New Actor 317
- Death of the Pram Factory 322
- Final Curtain for Nimrod? 327
- Part VII: Retrospection 331
- The Origins of Subsidy 334
- The Rise of Aboriginal Theatre 336
- Creative Nation 340
- News and Entertainment 341
- The Misuses of Language 344
- The Legacy of Subsidy 346
- Employment 349
- Process and Product 353.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Drewe, Robert, 1943-
- Also Titled:
- Observations on the rise of contemporary Australian theatre
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