Contemporary Indigenous Plays
Author | : Larissa Behrendt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9781925004304 |
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Author | : Larissa Behrendt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9781925004304 |
Author | : Vivienne Cleven |
Publisher | : Currency Press Pty Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868197951 |
Five plays from around Australia which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre. Adapted from her award-winning novel, Vivienne Cleven's "Bitin' Back" is a 'zany and uproarious black farce'; "Black Medea", Wesley Enoch's richly poetic adaptation of Euripides Medea, blends the cultures of Ancient Greek and indigenous storytelling to weave a bold and breathtaking commentary on contemporary experience; The acclaimed "King Hit" by David Milroy and Geoffrey Narkle, strikes at the very heart of the Stolen Generations, exploring the impact on an individual and a culture when relationships are brutally broken; Set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town, "Rainbow's End" by Jane Harrison creates a 'thought-provoking and emotionally powerful' (Age) snapshot of a Koori family to dramatise the struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance; And David Milroy's "Windmill Baby" is set on an abandoned cattle station in the Kimberley landscape, combines the poetry of a campfire story with the comedy of a great yarn.
Author | : Larissa Behrendt. (Juriste) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
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Author | : Larissa Behrendt. (Juriste) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
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Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9781760623968 |
Author | : Larissa Behrendt. (Juriste) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vivienne Cleven |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780702232497 |
When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Funny and cleverly covert, too, this is a truthful rendering of small town prejudice and racist attitudes. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape. Neither pig shoots, bust-ups at the Two Dogs, bare-knuckle sessions in the shed or even a police siege can slow the countdown on this human time bomb.
Author | : Jane Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australian |
ISBN | : 9781925004250 |
Set in the 1950s on the fringe of a country town, this is a thought-provoking and emotionally powerful snapshot of a Koori family which dramatises the struggle for decent housing, meaningful education, jobs and community acceptance.
Author | : Jaye T. Darby |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020-02-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350035076 |
This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. Native American and First Nations theatre weaves the spiritual and aesthetic traditions of Native cultures into diverse, dynamic, contemporary plays that enact Indigenous human rights through the plays' visionary styles of dramaturgy and performance. The book begins by introducing readers to historical and cultural contexts helpful for reading Native American and First Nations drama, followed by an overview of Indigenous plays and theatre artists from across the century. Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First Nations theatre artists are continuing to create works that advocate for human rights through transformative Native performance practices. Addressing the complexities of this dynamic field, this volume offers critical grounding in the historical development of Indigenous theatre in North America, while analysing key Native plays and performance traditions from the mainland United States and Canada. In surveying Native theatre from the late 19th century until today, the authors explore the cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual concerns, as well as the political and revitalization efforts of Indigenous peoples. This book frames the major themes of the genre and identifies how such themes are present in the dramaturgy, rehearsal practices, and performance histories of key Native scripts.
Author | : Susanne Julia Thurow |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2019-08-21 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1000682188 |
Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin’s Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss’ I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists’ engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.
Author | : Wesley Enoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Women, Aboriginal Australian |
ISBN | : 9781925004236 |
Black Medea is Wesley Enoch's richly poetic adaptation of Euripides' Medea. Blending the cultures of Ancient Greek and Indigenous storytelling, Enoch weaves a commentary on contemporary Aboriginal experience.