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'In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government in 1975, these 'alternative' theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of `accountability', and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation's theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today.'

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    • Leiden,
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      Netherlands,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Brill ,       2017 .
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      • Published 20 October 2017.

      ISBN: 9789004339880, 9004339884
      Series: y separately published work icon Australian Playwrights Australian Playwrights : A Series of Monographs and Video Programmes Peta Tait (editor), Rodopi (publisher), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 1987- Z1322500 1987 series - publisher

      'The aims of the series are:
      i) to contribute to the interpretation, critical analysis, promotion, and wider understanding of Australian drama in Australia and overseas;
      ii) to pursue a scholarly investigation through monographs which could include either an overview of a particular playwright and a critical analysis of his/her plays or a study of a grouping in drama and theatre including writers for performance within a unifying framework;
      iii) to illustrate and personalise the study of drama and theatre within Australia and overseas, especially for students.

      'Each monograph provides an in-depth study aimed at furthering knowledge of Australian drama and therefore Australian culture with reference to primary and secondary sources.'

      Source: Rodopi website, http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=AP
      Sighted07/11/2006

             Number in series: 17
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[Review] Australian Theatre After the New Wave: Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist Caroline Wake , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 80 2022; (p. 333)
— Review of Australian Theatre after the New Wave : Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist Julian Meyrick , 2017 multi chapter work criticism 'In this timely and important book, Julian Meyrick effectively asks: ‘What happens when a national arts funding body operates without a national cultural policy?’ While he is writing about the two decades from 1975 to 1994 – from the founding of the Australia Council for the Arts to the launch of the country’s first cultural policy, Creative Nation – he could be speaking about our own era, given that Australia has been without a cultural policy since the election of the Coalition in 2013. The answer, then as now, is that a series of assumptions are made by artists, bureaucrats and governments alike. The problem is that these assumptions are rarely articulated, let alone shared, meaning that there are misunderstandings at best and outright culture wars at worst. In the midst of our own battles, this book offers significant insight, though not necessarily comfort. (Introduction)
[Review] Australian Theatre After the New Wave: Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist Caroline Wake , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 80 2022; (p. 333)
— Review of Australian Theatre after the New Wave : Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist Julian Meyrick , 2017 multi chapter work criticism 'In this timely and important book, Julian Meyrick effectively asks: ‘What happens when a national arts funding body operates without a national cultural policy?’ While he is writing about the two decades from 1975 to 1994 – from the founding of the Australia Council for the Arts to the launch of the country’s first cultural policy, Creative Nation – he could be speaking about our own era, given that Australia has been without a cultural policy since the election of the Coalition in 2013. The answer, then as now, is that a series of assumptions are made by artists, bureaucrats and governments alike. The problem is that these assumptions are rarely articulated, let alone shared, meaning that there are misunderstandings at best and outright culture wars at worst. In the midst of our own battles, this book offers significant insight, though not necessarily comfort. (Introduction)
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