April 2017
Contents
Editorial Note
Meredith Rogers and Julian Meyrick
‘The Elasticity of Her Spirits’: Actresses and Resilience on the Nineteenth- Century Colonial Stage
Jane Woollard
'Chaos' and 'Convergence' on the Western Australian Goldfields: The Politics of Performance in the 1890s
William Dunstone and Helena Grehan
Black, White, and Red Faces: Race and Performance at NIDA
Christopher Hay
'A Rare Opportunity to Fail': STAB's Legacy of Theatrical Experimentation
Emma Willis
Performing Emotion to Remember a Pakeha Worldview
Adriann Smith
Hyperrealism and the Everyday: The Plays of Ranters Theatre
Raimondo Cortese
Dramaturgy of Mobility: Towards Crossover and Fusion in Out of the Ordinary
Maggie Ivanova and Alex Vickery-Howe
'Mad March' in the Festival City: Place-Making and Cultural Clash at Adelaide’s Festivals
Sarah Thomasson
Reviews
SALLY RICHARDS,
Caryl Churchill, by Mary Luckhurst;
MARYROSE CASEY,
Audienceas Performer:The Changing Role of Theatre Audiences in the Twenty-First Century, by Caroline Heim;
DAVID O'DONNELL,
Japanese Robot Culture:Performance, Imagination and Modernity, by Yuji Sone;
LISA WARRINGTON,
Best Playwriting Book Ever, by Roger Hall, plus Shift– three plays, by Alison Quigan, Vivienne Plumb & Lynda Chanwai-Earle, edited by David O'Donnell
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