Australian theatre after the New Wave : policy, subsidy and the alternative artist / by Julian Meyrick
- Bib ID:
- 7575037
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Meyrick, Julian, author
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
- ©2018
- xxii, 264 pages : illustrations, protraits ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004339880 (paperback)
- 9004339884
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9789004339897 (ebook)
- Series:
- Australian playwrights ; v. 17. 0921-2531
- Summary:
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In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in 1975, these ‘alternative’ theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of ‘accountability’, and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation’s theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction
- The origins of alternative theatre
- The Paris Theatre 1978
- The Hunter Valley Theatre Company 1976-1994
- Australian Nouveau Theatre (Anthill) 1980-85
- Australian Nouveau Theatre 1986-89
- Australian Nouveau Theatre 1990-91
- Australian Nouveau Theatre 1992-94
- Australian Nouveau Theatre: the meaning of the end
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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