Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 [Review] Contemporary Australian Playwriting Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage
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'Across the last two years, perhaps due to the paucity of live theatre available during the shutdowns of the COVID pandemic, there has been a welcome surge in books dedicated to Australian plays – from Julian Meyrick’s lucid Australia in 50 Plays (2022) to Chris Mead’s meditation on new play development, Wondrous Strange: Seven Brief Thoughts about New Plays (2022). Chris Hay and Stephen Carleton’s monograph, Contemporary Australian Playwrighting: Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage, sits within this good company as an elegant, cogently argued scholarly work, which honours the long tradition of play scholarship in Australia while illuminating the profound and necessary changes that have occurred to the field of Australian performance since 2007.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies On Resilience no. 83 1 October 2023 27347517 2023 periodical issue 'The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the field of theatre and performance in Australasia have intensified and, in some cases, re-focused the attention of artists and scholars on issues of resilience, well-being and precarity that have been legitimate preoccupations across academic disciplines since the early 2000s. As Margaret Ames and Stephen Greer point out, however, the resilience so frequently attributed to those who work in creative spheres can also serve ‘to rationalise and naturalise the redistribution of responsibility for social and systemic problems from the state to communities and individuals’.1 The role of the artist in society is shifting alongside extreme shifts in forms in theatre and performance, in the way our audiences engage, and in the ways in which we congregate, associate and learn.' (Editorial introduction) 2023 pg. 292-299
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