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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Amsterdam,
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Netherlands,
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Western Europe, Europe,:Rodopi , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Old Patterns, New Energies, Veronica Kelly , single work criticism (p. 1-19)
Boundary Riders and Claim Jumpers : The Australian Theatre Industry, Richard Fotheringham , single work criticism (p. 20-37)
Plays about the Vietnam War : The Agon of the Young, Elizabeth Perkins , single work criticism (p. 38-52)
Dis/orientations: Contemporary Asian-Australian Theatre, Jacqueline Lo , single work criticism
Jacqueline Lo looks at four Asian-Australian performances that are 'paradigmatic examples of ways of intervening in the prevailing discourses of Asia' (59).
 (p. 53-70)
Reconciliation? Aboriginality and Australian Theatre in the 1990s, Helen Gilbert , single work criticism
Helen Gilbert considers a wide range of Aboriginal theatre produced in the 1990s, tracing the various articulations of Aboriginality in these performances and how, in spite of difficulties and frustrations, they opened up a space for 'productive dialogue' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.
 (p. 71-88)
From Gay and Lesbian to Queer Theatre, Bruce Parr , single work criticism
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).
 (p. 89-103)
Recent Australian Women's Writing for the Stage, Helen Thomson , single work criticism
Helen Thomson surveys Australian women's writing for the stage, from 1970 to the 1990s, illustrating the diversity of feminist concerns and the forms these take in performances.
 (p. 104-116)
Inter-Referentiality : Interrogating Multicultural Australian Drama, Joanne Tompkins , single work criticism
This paper examines the discourses of multiculturalism in 1990s Australian drama, operating between 'the sexiness of difference and the unattainable authenticity that multiculturalism seems to still require' (117).
 (p. 117-131)
Maintaining Cultural Integrity : Teresa Crea, Doppio Teatro, Italo-Australian Theatre and Critical Multiculturalism, Tony Mitchell , single work criticism
Tony Mitchell traces the productions of Doppio Teatro (Double Theatre) 'one of the few professional Italo-Australian, bilingual, non-Anglo or 'multicultural' theatre groups which has managed to survive into the 1990s' (133). He notes mainstream critics' unsettledness in response to theatre in a language other than English (141).
 (p. 132-151)
Theatre in Education : Dead or Alive?, Geoffrey Milne , single work criticism
Geoffrey Milne surveys theatre production in education in the 1990s.
 (p. 152-167)
Community Stories : 'Aftershocks' and Verbatim Theatre, Paul Makeham , single work criticism (p. 168-181)
Sidetrack Performance Group and the Postmodern Turn, Tom Burvill , single work criticism
Tom Burvill traces the 'cultural-political project' of the Sidetrack Performance Group through the first half of the 1990s.
 (p. 182-194)
Melbourne's Women's Circus : Theatre, Feminism, Community, Alison Richards , single work criticism (p. 195-212)
Performing Sexed Bodies in Physical Theatre, Peta Tait , single work criticism (p. 213-228)
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