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020			_a9781032008639 _q(hardback)
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050	0	0	_aPR9611.52 _b.H39 2023
082	0	0	_a8AU HAY (TB) _223/eng/20220922
084			_2Colon Classification
100	1		_aHay, Chris _c(Drama professor), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aContemporary Australian playwriting : _bre-visioning the nation on the mainstage / _cChris Hay, Stephen Carleton.
263			_a2211
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge, _c2023.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Re-visioning the nation on the mainstage -- Re-visioning the comedy -- "Fuck Western classics" : Anchuli Felicia King and Michelle Law in conversation -- Postmigrant plays in Australia -- "Writing into otherness" : Michele Lee and S. Shakthidharan in conversation -- Re-visioning political theatre and 'Aussie naturalism' -- "We're very anti-politics" : Angela Betzien and Patricia Cornelius in conversation -- Theatre of the anthropocene -- "We're a teenage species" : Andrew Bovell and David Finnigan in conversation -- Re-visioning Landscape from the Regions -- "Sorry about the swearing" : Mary Anne Butler and Angus Cerini in conversation -- Adapt, or else -- "I don't adapt, I write" : Kate Mulvany and Tom Wright in conversation -- Imagined lives -- "You gotta glitter it up" : Tommy Murphy and Alana Valentine in conversation -- Telling stories in person -- "I'm a polite visitor in this world" : Glace Chase and Lally Katz in conversation -- Conclusion: Australian playwriting in lockdown.
520			_a"Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the 21st Century. In 2007, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was William Shakespeare. In 2019, the most produced playwright on the Australian mainstage was Nakkiah Lui, a young First Nations woman. This book explores what has happened both on stage and off to generate this remarkable change. As writers of colour, queer writers and gender diverse writers are produced on the mainstage in larger numbers, they bring new critical directions to the 21st Century Australian stage. At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia's leading playwrights have interrogated, problematised and tried to make sense of the nation. Tracing contemporary trends, the book takes a thematic approach to the re-evaluation of the nation that is dramatized in key Australian plays. Each chapter is accompanied by a duologue between two of the playwrights whose work has been analysed, to provide a dual perspective of theory and practice"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAustralian drama _y21st century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aDramatists, Australian _vInterviews.
650		0	_aPlaywriting.
650		0	_aMulticulturalism in literature.
650		0	_aMulticulturalism in the theater _zAustralia.
650		0	_aTheater _zAustralia _xHistory _y21st century.
700	1		_aCarleton, Stephen, _d1968- _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHay, Chris (Drama professor) _tContemporary Australian playwriting _dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 _z9781003176138 _w(DLC) 2022024742
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