Bruce Parr Bruce Parr i(A20426 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon Men at Play : Masculinities in Australian Theatre Since the 1950s Jonathan Bollen , Bruce Parr , Adrian Kiernander , Amsterdam New York (City) : Rodopi , 2008 Z1491239 2008 single work criticism

How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men's experiences of war and migration?

Men at Play explores theatre's role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays - from Dick Diamond's Reedy River, Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon's The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour's The One Day of the Year to David Williamson's Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett's The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham's The Boys and Nick Enright's Blackrock.

The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book's contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history. (Rodopi newsletter http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=AP+11)

1 2 y separately published work icon What a Man's Gotta Do? : Masculinities in Performance Adrian Kiernander (editor), Bruce Parr (editor), Jonathan Bollen (editor), Armidale : University of New England. Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies , 2006 Z1454706 2006 anthology criticism
1 The Misfit Male Body in Adelaide Theatre, 1959 Bruce Parr , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 46 2005; (p. 20-37)
The aims of this article are 'to highlight two little-known Australian plays of the late 1950s', 'to examine their young leading men, both misfits', and 'in some sense to queer these two plays' (20). 'Linking these two plays is the display of both young men's bodies which ... is in emulation of American drama and film of the 1950s... (20).
1 Queer/Irony in Nick Enright's Drama Bruce Parr , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: Siting the Other : Re-Visions of Marginality in Australian and English-Canadian Drama 2001; (p. 99-113)
1 From Gay and Lesbian to Queer Theatre Bruce Parr , 1998 single work criticism
— Appears in: Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s 1998; (p. 89-103)
Beginning with a reading of Good Works, Bruce Parr looks at a number of gay and lesbian theatre productions, and how such performances can be understood as 'making queer all sexualities and all theatre' (89).
1 y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theatre & Performance; ADS no. 31 October Bruce Parr (editor), Tim Benzie (editor), Shane Rowlands (editor), 1997 Z638718 1997 periodical issue
1 4 y separately published work icon Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays Bruce Parr (editor), Paddington : Currency Press , 1996 Z202194 1996 anthology drama
1 Queering the Australian Stage Bruce Parr , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Gay and Lesbian Plays 1996; (p. 7-37)
1 Untitled Bruce Parr , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 29 1996; (p. 216-220)

— Review of Good Works Nick Enright , 1994 single work drama
1 Peter Kenna's "The Cassidy Album": A Call for Re-Viewing Bruce Parr , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 24 1994; (p. 77-98)
1 1 y separately published work icon Drag Show : Featuring Peter Kenna's Mates and Steve J. Spears' The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin Bruce Parr (editor), Woollahra : Currency Press , 1977 Z481165 1977 anthology drama autobiography interview essay column
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