Australian drama
Articles
- The Author of The Hibernian Father: An Early Colonial Playwright
He haunts the books on early Australian theatre and drama His play is lost. We know its gloomy and involved plot from newspaper reports and…
1 December 1966 - Barry Oakley and the Satiric Mode
Barry Oakley's name has become associated in Melbourne during the late '60's and early 70's with the new playwrights, David Williamson, John Romeril, Jack Hibberd…
1 May 1975 - Australia’s ‘First’ Dramatists
Discusses early Australian theatre and drama in examining the question: Who wrote the first Australian play?
1 May 1969 - Some Recent Australian Plays, and Problems of Their Criticism
Few Australian critics would to-day be prepared to say that the Australian theatre contributes on equal terms with other centres of activity to the development…
1 October 1967 - The Hibernian Father: Mysteries Solved and Unsolved
Oppenheim discusses the authorship and origins of the play The Hiberian Father, focusing on its similarities to an earlier Irish play, The Warden of…
1 June 1967 - Alan Seymour
Whatever happened to Alan Seymour? For a time, in the early sixties he was generally considered to rank second only to Ray Lawler among Australian…
1 May 1974 - Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays
Discusses the treatment of Asian themes and the influence of Asian theatrical models in the work of Alex Buzo, John Romeril, Louis Nowra, Tony Strachan…
1 May 1985 - The Time Is Not Yet Ripe and Contemporary Attitudes to Politics
Louis Esson is on record as having agreed with the notion that literature is a mirror held up to nature, and The Time Is Not…
1 May 1978 - Correspondence
Mona Brand responds to Peter Fitzpatrick's essay 'Asian Stereotypes in Recent Australian Plays' (ALS 12 no. 1, 1985). Fitzpatrick responds.
1 May 1986 - Colonial ‘Australian’ Theatre Writers: Cultural Authorship and the Case of Marcus Clarke’s ‘First’ Play
Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry…
1 May 1997 - Review of Images of Australia, edited by Gillian Whitlock and David Carter, Sport in Australian Drama, by Richard Fotheringham, and South of the West: Postcolonialism and the Narrative Construction of Australia, by Ross Gibson
It is hard to find a way of connecting these three books other than to suggest, lamely, that their disparate subject matter and approaches reveal…
1 May 1993 - Spatialising the Ghosts of Anzac in the Plays of Sydney Tomholt: The Absent Soldier and the War Memorial
Kelly argues that the resonant presentation of catastrophic effects of war in the plays of Sydney Tomholt makes them important early examples of modernist drama.
1 May 2007 - Review of The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955, compiled and edited by Jack Bedson and Julian Croft
The story of the creation of the two major collections of Australian playscripts, the Campbell Howard Collection at the University of New England and the…
1 May 1995 - The One-Actor Play in Australian Drama
Provides a history of the one actor play in Australian theatre history, beginning in the early 19th century. Case studies of individual plays both classic…
1 May 1981
Contributors
- Mona Brand
- Peter Fitzpatrick
- Peter Fitzpatrick
- Richard Fotheringham
- Eric Irvin
- Van Ikin
- Veronica Kelly
- Veronica Kelly
- Helen Oppenheim
- Helen Oppenheim
- Alexander Porteous
- Jeremy Ridgman
- Alrene Sykes
- Graeme Turner
- Betty L. Watson