Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 [Review Essay] Telling Stories: Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance
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'Maryrose Casey's Telling Stories expands the territory of her ground-breaking book Creating Frames (2004), which traced the history of Indigenous Australian theatre from the 1960s to 1990 for the first time. In Telling Stories, Casey shifts her focus from script-based drama to traditional and historical Indigenous performance practices, where song, dance, storytelling and visual arts combine in dynamic interchange between spiritual ceremony and secular entertainment.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Theatre Research International vol. 39 no. 2 July 2014 10713111 2014 periodical issue

    'As I read these articles over, I am struck yet again at how many connections I find among them. I have come to think of this issue of Theatre Research International as the unintended special issue. But special issue on what? Overall, I think that taken together the articles are a primer on the challenges, possibilities and imperatives of representing globalization in live performance. But there are other connections as well. The economics and geopolitics of neoliberalism undergird all four explorations, especially as they provoke human migration and upend traditional arts-funding paradigms. What exactly constitutes ‘local’ is also very much an open question for all the authors. Whether it is because the performances are perceived as ‘from here’ or ‘from away’, or because the audiences and the artists do not share a common nation, local is revealed as a very unstable concept.' (Canning, Charlotte; Editorial introduction)

    2014
    pg. 159-160
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