Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Dramaturgy of Mobility : Towards Crossover and Fusion in Out of the Ordinary
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'This article examines the implications that the new cultural competencies and literacies associated with participatory and popular cultures might hold for dramaturgy in terms of characterisation, creating a sense of space-time, and the artist's role in society. Our analysis focuses on Alex Vickery-Howe's new Australian play Out of the Ordinary (2016), situating it in the context of his earlier explorations of alternative dramaturgies, Once Upon a Midnight (2008) and Molly's Shoes (2011). Drawing structurally on the ways crossover and fusion have developed new cultural expression and reached new audiences in music and film, we investigate the creative potential that comics, manga, anime and related fan cultures might hold for dramaturgy. Our goal is to explore the thinking that underlies crossover and fusion as artistic practices requiring a kind of creative bilingualism - in our case, a mastery of the cultural competencies and literacies associated with cross- and multi-modal creative expression. We suggest that such creative bilingualism has been a continuing element in culture since the rise of melodrama, reminding us that expressive turns towards mystery, magic, intense spiritual experiences, etc, could, in fact, underscore social engagement. (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. 159-186
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