Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Cross-Racial Casting : Changing the Faces of Australian Theatre
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'Mainstream theatre in Australia is very white. Too white. Why are we falling behind the rest of the theatrical world in seeing complex diverse casts onstage in our major theatre companies? When you ask this question of theatre practitioners, an awful discourse of blame begins: agents blame casting directors, drama schools blame 'the industry', everyone blames artistic directors. Talking about racism in Australia is difficult in the climate of indignant denial. Our vocabulary and strategies for discussing it publicly have become inadequate. ' (Publisher's blurb)

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency House , 2007 .
      Extent: 80p.
      ISBN: 9780980280210
      Series: y separately published work icon Platform Papers Currency Press (publisher), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2004-2020 Z1171343 2004 series - publisher 'A quarterly publication (January, April, July and October) on an issue affecting the health of the performing arts.' Number in series: 13

Works about this Work

Readers' Forum Julian Meyrick , Neil Armfield , Nicholas Pickard , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Sustainable Arts Sector: What Will It Take? 2008; (p. 59-71)
All White on the Night Rosalie Higson (interviewer), 2007 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 July 2007; (p. 8)
Anglo-focus Theatre Simon Ferguson , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 3 August 2007; (p. 77)
Casting Beyond the Pale Bryce Hallett , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 July 2007; (p. 9)
Bryce Hallett airs some of the issues raised in Lee Lewis's Cross-Racial Casting : Changing the Faces of Australian Theatre.
All White on the Night: Directors' Cut Bryce Hallett , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June - 1 July 2007; (p. 3)
Bryce Hallett reports on Lee Lewis's assertion that 'Australia's theatre companies fail their ethnically diverse audience and directors are "silently complicit with an imagined community of exclusion"'.
All White on the Night: Directors' Cut Bryce Hallett , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30 June - 1 July 2007; (p. 3)
Bryce Hallett reports on Lee Lewis's assertion that 'Australia's theatre companies fail their ethnically diverse audience and directors are "silently complicit with an imagined community of exclusion"'.
Casting Beyond the Pale Bryce Hallett , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2 July 2007; (p. 9)
Bryce Hallett airs some of the issues raised in Lee Lewis's Cross-Racial Casting : Changing the Faces of Australian Theatre.
Readers' Forum Julian Meyrick , Neil Armfield , Nicholas Pickard , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Sustainable Arts Sector: What Will It Take? 2008; (p. 59-71)
Anglo-focus Theatre Simon Ferguson , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Daily Telegraph , 3 August 2007; (p. 77)
All White on the Night Rosalie Higson (interviewer), 2007 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian , 9 July 2007; (p. 8)
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