Research Catalog

Title

Creating frames : contemporary indigenous theatre, 1967-1990 / Maryrose Casey.

Author

Casey, Maryrose

Publication

St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 372 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Summary

Provides the first significant social and cultural history of Indigenous theatre across Australia. Creating Frames traces the journey behind a substantial national body of work and its importance in ensuring that Indigenous voices are heard.

Subject

• Davis, Jack, 1917-2000
• 1900-1999
• Theater, Aboriginal Australian > History > 20th century
• Australian drama > Aboriginal Australian authors > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-358) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Framed by assimilation -- Single Voices -- Fracturing the frame -- Nindethana -- One step beyond -- Potential pathways -- Collective Beginnings 1972 -- Organising collectively -- Black Theatre in Sydney -- The National Black Theatre -- The aftermath of 1972 -- The Critics' Response -- Framing the work -- Issues are too familiar -- The language -- The unfamiliar without comment -- Who speaks? -- A Precedent 1973-1977 -- Good ideas cost money -- National Seminar on Aboriginal Arts -- The Black Theatre Arts and Cultural Centre in Redfern -- The Cake Man -- Frustrated hopes -- Here Comes the Nigger -- Opening new doors -- Breaking into the mainstream -- Framed by Multiculturalism's Authenticity -- Jack Davis and Noongar Theatre 1978-1986 -- Creating new frames -- Melyarn (calling out, singing out) -- Kullark -- The Dreamers -- No Sugar -- Honey Spot -- Kwadjat kurl (going forward) -- On the Way to a Bran Nue Dae? 1986-1990 -- Creative challenges, national and regional -- Organising nationally -- The Aboriginal National Theatre Trust -- The bicentenary -- Organising locally: Bran Nue Dae -- The work continues -- Framed by Reconciliation -- Creative Control 1990-1997 -- Regional companies and national festivals -- The political 1990s -- Indigenous theatre companies -- Project-based productions and collaborations -- Festivals -- 1990s in frame -- Who's Who.

ISBN

070223432X

LCCN

^^2004463447

OCLC

• 57393404
• SCSB-12523006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library