Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda

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Title Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda
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Abstract/Description This book looks at a number of contemporary Australian playwrights who seek to encourage discussions about current political, national and ideological issues and values in Australia. Power Plays is divided into thematic chapters which look at the theatre's take on indigenous identities, the history wars, rural and regional Australia, globalisation and class, border protection and the war on terror. It combines interviews with eight mainstream playwrights - Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Reg Cribb, Ben Ellis, Wesley Enoch, Hannie Rayson, Stephen Sewell, Katherine Thomson - with analyses of their plays, and other plays which cover similiar terrain, to examine how the contemporary theatre is contributing to the public agenda. (Publisher)
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Publisher Currency Press
Publisher Location Sydney
Date Issued 2007
Date Of Copyright
2007
Language English
Medium Book
ISBN 10 9780868198156
Citation Hilary Glow, Power Plays: Australian Theatre and the Public Agenda, Currency Press, Sydney, 2007
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 1782