03260nam 2200565 a 450 991078131070332120230725050502.094-012-0053-X10.1163/9789401200530(CKB)2550000000039530(EBL)735597(OCoLC)741493005(SSID)ssj0000525185(PQKBManifestationID)12177034(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525185(PQKBWorkID)10504095(PQKB)10136948(MiAaPQ)EBC735597(OCoLC)741940776(nllekb)BRILL9789401200530(Au-PeEL)EBL735597(CaPaEBR)ebr10483633(EXLCZ)99255000000003953020110729d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRadical visions 1968-2008[electronic resource] the impact of the sixties on Australian drama /Denise VarneyAmsterdam Rodopi20111 online resource (293 p.)Australian playwrights ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.90-420-3354-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The International Generation of 1968: Theatre and Culture -- The Australian Performing Group and Its Legacy, 1968–2008 -- Williamson in the Howard Years -- John Romeril – The Asian Australian Journey -- A Parallel Forty-Year Female Narrative with Alma De Groen -- Richard Murphet and the Wounded Subject -- Jenny Kemp – On the Edge -- Stephen Sewell and the State of the Nation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.Radical Visions 1968-2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama is about a generation of Australian playwrights who came of age in the sixties. This important book shows how international trends in youth radicalism and cultural change at the time contributed to the rise of interest in alternative theatre and drama in a number of locations. It follows the career of Australia’s major playwrights — Alma De Groen, Jenny Kemp, Richard Murphet, John Romeril, Stephen Sewell and David Williamson — whose early plays were first performed at La Mama and the Pram Factory theatres in Melbourne in the sixties and seventies and who continue to make new work. The book’s dual purpose is to examine the impact of the sixties on playwriting and update the scholarship on the contemporary works with close readings of the plays of the nineties and the first decade of the twenty-first century. By analysing the recent plays, the book traces the continuing impact of left wing politics and cultural change on Australian theatre and society.Australian playwrights ;monograph no. 13.Australian drama20th centuryAustralian drama882/.009Varney Denise1463176MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781310703321Radical visions 1968-20083672406UNINA