Patrick Whites The Ham Funeral
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The Ham Funeral
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868199313 |
Patrick White's Theatre
Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Sydney University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1743327560 |
“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s plays as they progress through different productions, revivals, and receptions … This is an essential insight, and one which could be usefully extended to White’s novels, and perhaps to Australian modernism broadly.” - Jonathan Dunk, Australian Book Review One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting. In Patrick White’s Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White’s eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White’s complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.
Flaws in the Glass
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-07 |
Genre | : Novelists, Australian |
ISBN | : 9781742759005 |
"A self-portrait that is as brilliant original as White's fiction and drama. In this remarkable self-portrait Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass."
Night on Bald Mountain
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868194691 |
White set out to write what he believed to be the first Australian tragedy. Along the way he happily strayed into other genres. The result is the wild and curious tale of a hermit goatkeeper, gatekeeper to a lonely mountain top; a disaffected academic and his equally disaffected, alcoholic wife; and a lost soul retreating from her own life by attempting to fulfil the lives of others. The play is as irreverent and entertaining as it is intellectually challenging (3 acts, 5 men, 4 women).
In the Hope of Rising Again
Author | : Helen Scully |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101651032 |
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On Patrick White
Author | : Christos Tsiolkas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Australian literature |
ISBN | : 9780369302991 |
Collected Plays
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Currency Press Pty Limited |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
In 1961, following a now-famous controversy in which Board of the Adelaide Festival rejected it, Patrick White's The ham funeral was brought to the stage by the Adelaide theatre Guild. this expressionist drama, highly European in consciousness, was the first of its kind to reach the Australian mainstage: it and the three plays which quickly followed blazed the way towards a new kind of theatrical imagination which soon began to draw with a new freedom all forms of poetry, music and the visual arts into the creation of a new kind of indigenous drama. A generation later a theatre rich in skills and resources has grown to maturity in which the plays of Patrick White have taken their place in the repertoire of the major companies.