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1 Pivoting 'Resilience' : Australian Women Playwrights, Community and the Covid-19 Crisis Rebecca Clode , Julieanne Lamond , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , 1 October no. 83 2023; (p. 67-101) 'This article discusses the findings of a qualitative study of the effects of eighteen months of the COVID pandemic on the careers, livelihoods and creative practice of ten Australian women playwrights. We find that the gendered impacts of the pandemic, and the calls for resilience it prompted, compounded a series of challenges that were already being faced by women playwrights in Australia. Between March and September 2021, we interviewed Australian women playwrights, asking them to speak about their experiences throughout the COVID crisis. These interviews were situated within a broader study of the effects of the pandemic upon Australian women writers.2 Expanding upon our previous work, we wanted to explore how those writing specifically for theatre – a fundamentally communal creative form – were impacted by the pandemic, and whether there was a gendered dimension to the pandemic’s effects in theatre as seen elsewhere.3 Our methodology, the interview, was chosen primarily to offer playwrights an opportunity to speak freely about the situations in which they found themselves. A key observation from our interviews was that playwrights had entered the pandemic against the background of an already depleted and under-resourced industry. Drawing on work by Suman Gupta and Ayan-Yue Gupta along with John Yves Pinder, and extending the provocations offered by Margaret Ames and Stephen Greer in their 2021 editorial ‘Renegotiating Resilience, Redefining Resourcefulness’, we explore the problematic notion of resilience and its deployment as a part of a neoliberal rhetoric.4 We connect the social and political contexts of the austerity crisis in which Australian theatre-makers encountered the pandemic, extending and expanding their observations on ‘resilience’ and the arts in the Global North.' 

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1 1 y separately published work icon Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage Rebecca Clode , London : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , 2022 24535506 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre’s capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural, and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced.

'Drawing from existing scholarly arguments about the value of considering metatheatre holistically, this book deploys a range of critical approaches, combining textual and production analysis, archival research, interviews, and reflections gained from observing rehearsals. Focusing on four plays and their Australian productions, the book uses these examples to showcase how metatheatre has been utilised to generate powerful elements of critique, particularly of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. It highlights metatheatre’s vital place in Australian dramatic and theatrical history and connects this Australian tradition to wider concepts in the development of contemporary theatre.

'This illuminating text will be of interest to students and scholars of Australian theatre (historic and contemporary) as well as those researching and studying drama and theatre studies more broadly.' (Publication summary)
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