Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 'Chaos' and 'Convergence' on the Western Australian Goldfields : The Politics of Performance in the 1890s
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'This article adapts Doreen Massey's concept of space as a simultaneity and multiplicity of social relationships 'stretched out' over time, as a lens through which to consider the rapid emergence of a regional theatre sector during the 1890s mining boom on Western Australia's 'default frontier' Eastern Goldfields. In effect, we argue that while the locational surface of Eastern Goldfields theatre production was intensely local in its geographic and cultural specificities, it was also inalienably and reflexively affiliated with metropolitan centres of theatre production and consumption elsewhere in colonial Australia and the wider Anglopshere. We analyse the historical record of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Eastern Goldfields theatre performances to instantiate elements of 'chaos', by which Massey means 'happenstance juxtapositions' of cause and effect in theatre production within and beyond the region. At the same time, we argue that 'chaos' others itself as 'convergence', as local interests sought to consolidate regional control of the 'spatial ordering' of Goldfields theatre production and consumption.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 70 April 2017 11351690 2017 periodical issue

    'In the fortieth year of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, this seventieth issue of its journal continues to publish a remarkably diverse range of articles from a continuously evolving set of disciplines. The collection is presented in roughly chronological order, beginning with two articles exploring aspects of Australia's colonial past. Jane Woollard's richly detailed account of the different styles and careers of two of Australia's best known nineteenth-century actresses is followed by an article in which William Dunstone and Helena Grehan revisit the history of performance on the Western Australian Goldfields through the lens of cultural geography.' (Editorial introduction)

    2017
    pg. 35-56
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