Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance
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'Since the late eighteenth century, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiated performances have been an important part of cross-cultural communication in Australia. Over those years, at different points, these performances have achieved high public profile and then subsequently been erased from the social memory. This book investigates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander historical practices for performances for entertainment; how they adapted to colonisation and how these performance practices extend contemporary theatre. Based on interviews and detailed examinations of shows, this book sets out to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within the context of their historical performance practices for entertainment.'
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Review : Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance, André Bastian , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 64 2014; (p. 325-330)

— Review of Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance Maryrose Casey , 2012 single work criticism
[Review Essay] Telling Stories: Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance David O'Donnell , 2014 single work essay review
— Appears in: Theatre Research International , July vol. 39 no. 2 2014; (p. 159-160)
'Maryrose Casey's Telling Stories expands the territory of her ground-breaking book Creating Frames (2004), which traced the history of Indigenous Australian theatre from the 1960s to 1990 for the first time. In Telling Stories, Casey shifts her focus from script-based drama to traditional and historical Indigenous performance practices, where song, dance, storytelling and visual arts combine in dynamic interchange between spiritual ceremony and secular entertainment.' (Introduction)
Review : Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance, André Bastian , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 64 2014; (p. 325-330)

— Review of Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance Maryrose Casey , 2012 single work criticism
[Review Essay] Telling Stories: Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance David O'Donnell , 2014 single work essay review
— Appears in: Theatre Research International , July vol. 39 no. 2 2014; (p. 159-160)
'Maryrose Casey's Telling Stories expands the territory of her ground-breaking book Creating Frames (2004), which traced the history of Indigenous Australian theatre from the 1960s to 1990 for the first time. In Telling Stories, Casey shifts her focus from script-based drama to traditional and historical Indigenous performance practices, where song, dance, storytelling and visual arts combine in dynamic interchange between spiritual ceremony and secular entertainment.' (Introduction)
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