Australian Metatheatre on Page and Stage

This book offers the first major discussion of metatheatre in Australian drama of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It highlights metatheatre's capacity to illuminate the wider social, cultural and artistic contexts in which plays have been produced.

Autorentext

Rebecca Clode is a lecturer in Drama and English at the Australian National University. She is a PhD graduate of the ANU and also holds an MA in Text and Performance Studies from King's College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Research interests include Australian Drama (history and practice) as well as contemporary European and American Dramas. Rebecca is also a theatre-maker with a background in directing and dramaturgy.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. The metatheatre of Dorothy Hewett s The Man from Mukinupin 2. The metatheatre of The Man from Mukinupin on stage 3. Louis Nowräs Royal Show 4. Sideshow Alley as metatheatre in Louis Nowräs Royal Show 5. Timberlake Wertenbaker s Our Country s Good 6. Our Country s Good: the metatheatre of rehearsal, backstage and the `Aboriginal Australian 7. Peta Murray s Things That Fall Over an (anti-)musical of a novel, inside a reading of a play, with footnotes, and oratorio-as-coda 8. Peta Murray s Things That Fall Over: (Con)Texts, Paratexts, Metatheatre 9. Conclusion: Sideshows and other Swansongs