Author: Eunice HangerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816604937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Three Australian Plays
Author: Eunice HangerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780816604937
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Three Australian Plays
Author: HangerThree Austalian Plays
Author: Harold Gemmell KippaxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Three Australian Plays
Author: Alan SeymourPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140482393
Category : Anzac Day
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Third edition of a book first published in 1963. Contains the works of Alan Seymour, 'The One Day of the Year'; Douglas Stewart, 'Ned Kelly'; and Hal Porter, 'The Tower'. Alrene Sykes' introduction provides a concise historical and biographical background to the playwrights and their works. 'The One Day of the Year' (revised some 25 years after the first performance) remains a classic Australian drama and 'Ned Kelly', originally broadcast as a radio play in 1942, provides a balanced approach to the Kelly legend. 'The Tower' represents the modern era of Australian melodramas.
Three Australian Plays
Author: Hal PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anzac Day
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Three Australian Plays
Author: Peter E. LevyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780648515296
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Three scintillating and intense dramas, real page turners, in the one book. A bright teenage girl ravaged at home and on the streets. An atrocious act plagues a heroic war hero. A meritorious secret agent reflects upon a flawed life.
Three Plays for the Australian Stage
Author: Arthur Henry AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Three Australian Plays - Unproduced Reading Scripts
Author: Toronto Free Theatre ArchivesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Men at Play
Author: Jonathan BollenPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042023570
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays - from Dick Diamond's Reedy River, Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon's The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour's The One Day of the Year to David Williamson's Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett's The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham's The Boys and Nick Enright's Blackrock. The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book's contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.
Three Plays for the Australian Stage (Classic Reprint)
Author: Arthur Henry AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330598061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Excerpt from Three Plays for the Australian Stage This selection from my later plays is arranged in chronological order. Excluding my first attempt at writing for the stage, "Tapu," a Maori Comic Opera, completed with the assistance of the late J. C. Williamson, during my engagement with him as literary secretary, and subsequently produced by him throughout Australasia, my talc of plays begins with "Ironside Penruddock," a Cromwellian romantic play. This was my only effort in romantic drama, and since then I have devoted myself to modern comedy. The first in this line was "The Tame Cat"; then followed in order, "The New Chum," a light comedy of the Maoriland backblocks; "The Wasters"; "Galahad Jones," a dramatisation of my novel of the same name; "Mrs. Pretty and the Premier"; and an Australian children's play. Another Australian comedy is now in the arduous process of being re-written. Meantime I have written about a dozen one-act comedies. "The Tame Cat" was produced in Sydney by an amateur organisation on July nth, 1908, and subsequently revived. "The Wasters" was produced by the Adelaide Literary (now Repertory) Theatre on August 27th, 1910. "Galahad Jones," written in 1910, has not yet been produced, nor has "Mrs. Pretty and the Premier," written in 1912, though it is down for presentation by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre this year. In each case the run of the play was for one consecutive night. One of my one-act plays has been produced five times by different organisations, including the Sydney Stage Society and the Adelaide Literary Theatre; another has had a matinee performance in London. A volume of these one-acters is in contemplation. These plays were written for the Australian Stage. One of the many drawbacks to their production is that there is no Australian Stage. These plays do not claim to be Repertory plays: they were written for the Australian commercial theatre-though it must be admitted that, so far, the controlling destinies of the Australian commercial stage have not quite grasped my intention. The reception, and rejection, of these comedies by various Australian theatrical managers has invariably been polite. The publication of these plays is not to be regarded as a claim for their consideration as literature, even dramatic literature. They were deliberately built for the commercial theatre, and, judged by the ethics of the theatrical manager, with some expert assistance from the box-office. they stand or fall. Their appearance in book-form is a mere formal filing of certain attempts to deal dramatically with Australian conditions viewed from an Australian standpoint by the creation of characters essentially Australian. They do not deal with the Bush. My conviction is that the Australian town-dweller is as typically and as distinctively national as the extinct bushranger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.