Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Bran Nue Dae : An Essentially Conservative Work Sacrificing Politics for a Utopian Reconciliation?
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'Bran Nue Dae, written by Jimmy Chi, directed by Andrew Ross, and with a score performed by Kuckles, uses the eccentricity of the musical theatre genre to communicate political messages in innovative and unexpected ways. Indeed, the play’s origins are in Broome, a city that as Peter Bibby articulates in the script’s introduction, ‘is such a long way from anywhere that it might as well be nowhere, which is perhaps a good starting point for surprises’ (Bibby 1991, p.6). Part of what characterises the text and makes it so surprising is its combination of non-naturalistic techniques and hard-hitting political statements. In this essay, I will first weigh up three separate issues; whether Bran Nue Dae can be considered conservative, the extent to which it is political, and the nature of its conclusion which, as the essay question suggests, presents a utopian reconciliation that compromises its political aims. Following this, I will assess the question as a whole, determining whether the musical’s conclusion jars or aligns with the rest of the text. Ultimately, I will argue that although the musical theatre genre enables Bran Nue Dae to be blatant and outlandish, the political issues it explores are incorporated into the text in complex, subtle and oftentimes abstract ways.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon NEW : Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies vol. 1 no. 1 2015 15296400 2015 periodical issue

    'The essays in this inaugural edition of New: Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies are the work of undergraduates from Social and Political Sciences, at the University of Technology, Sydney, and the Australian Indigenous Studies Program, University of Melbourne.' (Introduction)

    2015
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  • Bran Nue Dae Reg Cribb , Rachel Perkins , Jimmy Chi , 2009 single work film/TV
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