Research Catalog

Title

Power plays : Australian theatre and the public agenda / Hilary Glow.

Author

Glow, Hilary

Publication

Sydney : Currency Press, 2007.

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Description

x, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The book looks at a number of contemporary Australian playwrights who seek to encourage discussions about current political, national and ideological issues and values in Australia. Power Plays is divided into thematic chapters which look at the theatre's take on indigenous identities, the history wars, rural and regional Australia, globalisation and class, border protection and the war on terror. It combines interviews with eight mainstream playwrights - Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Reg Cribb, Ben Ellis, Wesley Enoch, Hannie Rayson, Stephen Sewell, Katherine Thomson - with analyses of their plays, and other plays which cover similiar terrain, to examine how the contemporary theatre is contributing to the public agenda."--Publisher.

Subject

• Australian drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Australian drama > 21st century > History and criticism
• Dramatists, Australian > 20th century > Political and social views
• Dramatists, Australian > 21st century > Political and social views
• Political plays, Australian > History and criticism
• Playwriting
• Nationalism > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9780868198156 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008426634

OCLC

260337540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library