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Alternative title: ADS
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... no. 47 October 2005 of Australasian Drama Studies est. 1982 Australasian Drama Studies
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Young People and Performance in Australia and New Zealand, Mary Ann Hunter , Geoffrey Milne , single work criticism (p. 3-13)
Acknowledging the Past : Youth Performing Arts in the 1970s, Margaret Leask , single work criticism (p. 14-25)
Melbourne to Manchester : Arena Theatre's Artform Evolution, Rosemary Myers , single work criticism (p. 26-35)
Pecking at Your Head : The Flight and Fall of 'Magpie', Rosemary Nursey-Bray , single work criticism (p. 36-54)
White Crocodile, Black Skirt : Theatre for Young People and Cultural Memory, Helen Strube , single work criticism
The essay 'observes how theatre for young people has the capacity to move young people beyond the fictions of past cultural narratives.' It explores how two plays 'seek to recover suppressed stories from Australian cultural history' (56).
 (p. 55-72)
Welcome to Lallyland : Introducing the Plays of Lally Katz as Magical Feminism, Ricci-Jane Adams , single work criticism (p. 73-88)
Promoting Agency or 'Stepping-Stones R Us'? : Recent Melbourne Youth Theatre, Geoffrey Milne , single work criticism
The paper focuses on 'a range of youth theatre practice in Melbourne since the last years of the 1990s. ... It examines a mixture of extant works, or plays specially commissioned for youth companies, and others that are devised by members of the companies with assistance from professional writers and dramaturgs' (121). The author is interested in the 'youth-specificity' of the works performed, the working relationships writers and dramaturgs have with the young people, and the efficacy of the works as theatre and as youth theatre.
 (p. 121-139)
Of Peacebuilding and Performance : Contact Inc's 'Third Space' of Intercultural Collaboration, Mary Ann Hunter , single work criticism
Examines two Contact projects: the Meetings/Dadiiri project in 1991 and the Peace Project, ongoing since 2001.
 (p. 140-158)
Untitled, Meredith Rogers , single work review
— Review of Upstaged : Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight at Last Michelle Arrow , 2002 single work criticism ; (p. 159-161)
Untitled, David Watt , single work review
— Review of The Space Between : The Art of Puppetry and Visual Theatre in Australia Peter J. Wilson , Geoffrey Milne , 2004 selected work non-fiction ; (p. 162-164)
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