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Katharine Brisbane Katharine Brisbane i(A28458 works by) (a.k.a. K. Brisbane)
Born: Established: 1932
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Singapore,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Arts and the Common Good Katharine Brisbane , Strawberry Hills : Currency House , 2015 8542406 2015 single work criticism

'What is art? What is culture? And what value do we place upon it today? Katharine Brisbane looks back on our changing culture and the way public subsidy since 1968 has built massive opportunities for our artists, performers and those who have built an industry around them. She also traces the divisions that have grown between the community and the arts sector, and the moral divide between art and commerce. She concludes that the promised pursuit of excellence has been fulfilled and exhausted; and proposes a way to salvage its achievements by throwing open our major institutions to public investment and private enterprise, releasing creativity into new directions and reconsidering how we might together build an inclusive cultural environment.' (Publication summary)
1 Audience Left Behind in the Dark Katharine Brisbane , 2011 extract prose
— Appears in: The Australian , 28 November 2011; (p. 15) Despite the cultural landmarks of the past forty years, Australian artists lack the standing they deserve. Katharine Brisbane looks back on four decades of artistic growth in Australia in search of answers
1 Theatre from 1950 Katharine Brisbane , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 391-418)
1 Memoirs of a Modest Superstar Katharine Brisbane , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 August 2008; (p. 28-29)
— Review of Blood and Tinsel : A Memoir Jim Sharman , 2008 single work autobiography
1 2 y separately published work icon Plays of the 50s [Volume One] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2007 Z1372257 2007 anthology drama
1 Case-study : Currency Press Katharine Brisbane , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: Paper Empires : A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005 2006; (p. 66-73) Currency Press one of the oldest surviving independent Australian publishers, is a unique institution: a publishing house that subsists principally on the work of Australia's playwrights, performers and composers in a market almost entirely local. That the company exists at all is a tribute to Australian nationalism. That it is almost alone in surviving even thirty years is evidence of the obstacles that beset the industry and the stubbornness required to overcome them. Currency's survival can be put down to three things: good timing, finding a niche, and building a team that believes in cultural worth.' (Introduction 66-67)
1 Political Fictions Katharine Brisbane , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Two Brothers 2005; (p. vii-xi)
1 8 y separately published work icon Not Wrong Just Different : Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatre Katharine Brisbane , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2005 Z1217047 2005 single work criticism This book provides an 'insight into the growth of theatre in Australia from 1967 when Katharine Brisbane joined the fledgling Australian as its national theatre critic. It tells the story largely through her writings for the paper and for later publications through to the mid 1980s. The book concludes with her contributions to the public debate in the years since, which articulate the power of the arts in our everyday lives ... The book steers us through battles over censorship and subsidy, the demolition of nineteenth century theatres and the construction of great cultural centres' (Back cover blurb).
1 y separately published work icon Plays of the 50s [Volume Two] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2004 Z1174485 2004 anthology drama
1 y separately published work icon David Willaimson : A Celebration Katharine Brisbane , Canberra : Friends of the National Library of Australia , 2003 Z1190549 2003 selected work criticism
1 Conflict and Reconciliation : The Gospel According to David Williamson Katharine Brisbane , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: David Williamson : A Celebration 2003; (p. 1-11)
1 1 y separately published work icon David Williamson : A Celebration Katharine Brisbane , Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2003 Z1080916 2003 anthology criticism
1 1 y separately published work icon The Parsons Lectures : The Philip Parsons Memorial Lectures on the Performing Arts 1993-2003 Katharine Brisbane (editor), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2003 Z1061104 2003 anthology criticism
1 Introduction Katharine Brisbane , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: The First Play Collection 2002; (p. [v]-viii)
1 3 y separately published work icon Plays of the 60s : Volume 2 Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z184660 1998 anthology drama (taught in 2 units)
1 3 y separately published work icon Plays of the 70s [Volume 2] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z184553 1998 anthology drama (taught in 3 units)
1 y separately published work icon Plays of the 60s : Volume 1 Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z1174230 1998 anthology drama (taught in 2 units)

'This collection includes: The Well (1960) by Jack McKinney, a rustic comedy in the Steele Rudd tradition set in Queensland; Burst of Summer (1960) by Oriel Gray is a realist play dealing with racial prejudice and is based on the brief success of the Aboriginal actress Ngarla Kunoth, who played Jedda in the Chauvel film; The Season at Sarsaparilla (1962), Patrick White's poetic satire examining the inevitable cycle of birth, copulation and death; White called it a 'charade of suburbia'; and The Promised Woman by Theodore Patrikareas which had its first stage production in Sydney in 1963 and is possibly the first play by a post-war immigrant staged in Australia. The play portrays migrants adapting to their new country and finding new identities and was adapted for the screen in 1974. (1 act, 2 women)' (Publication summary)
1 1 y separately published work icon Plays of the 70s [Volume 3] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z868625 1998 anthology drama (taught in 2 units)
1 3 y separately published work icon Plays of the 60s [Volume 3] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z34923 1998 anthology drama
1 4 y separately published work icon Plays of the 70s [Volume 1] Katharine Brisbane (editor), Sydney : Currency Press , 1998 Z34704 1998 anthology drama (taught in 11 units)
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