Cirrus@Austlit

'Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White: Governing Culture, by Denise Varney and Sandra D’Urso, is a significant and unusual book. Studies of Australian playwrights are no longer published with the frequency and focus they once were. The Australian Playwrights series (now edited by Varney at Brill) began with a series of monographs on the playwrights of the ‘New Wave’. Since the mid-1990s, as the emphasis of research shifted towards performance, the series has extended beyond playwrights to include production histories, companies and venues, actors, directors and industry sectors.'

 (Introduction)