Transfigured stages : major practitioners and theatre aesthetics in Australia
Title:
Transfigured stages : major practitioners and theatre aesthetics in Australia
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Margaret Hamilton.
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Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:
9789401200554
Series:
Abstract:
Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. 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 e.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-232) and index.
Contents:
Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Introduction; 1: Open City and the Politics of the Everyday; 1: Open City and the Politics of the Everyday; 2: The Sydney Front and Grotesque Realism; 2: The Sydney Front and Grotesque Realism; 3: Jenny Kemp's Landscapes of the Psyche; 3: Jenny Kemp's Landscapes of the Psyche; 4: The Aboriginal Protesters Confront the Postdramatic Text.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.