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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.
Author | : May-Brit Akerholt |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789051830057 |
Patrick White was one of the world's main literary figures, but often neglected as a playwright outside Australia. His first four plays, performed between 1961-1965, were instrumental in changing the directions of Australian theatre. This book presents an overview of Patrick White's life and work, as well as a critical analysis of his plays.
Author | : Denise Varney |
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Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 9781743327609 |
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Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Theater programs |
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Author | : Richard William Young |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Denise Varney |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1783088370 |
In the early 1960s the board of governors of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia rejected two Patrick White plays, The Ham Funeral in 1962 and Night on Bald Mountain in 1964. Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White documents the scandal that followed the board’s rejections of White’s plays, especially as it acted against the advice of its own drama committee and artistic director on both occasions. Denise Varney and Sandra D’Urso analyze the two events by drawing on the performative behaviour of the board of governors to focus on the question of governance. They shed new light on the cultural politics that surrounded the rejections, arguing that it represents an instance of executive governance of cultural production, in this case theatre and performance. The central argument of the book is that aesthetic modernism in theatre and drama struggled to achieve visibility and acceptability, and posed a threat to the norms and values of early to mid-twentieth-century Australia. The recent productions indicate that despite the Adelaide Festival’s early hostile rejections, White’s plays endure.
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Currency Press Pty Limited |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
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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.
Author | : J. R. Dyce |
Publisher | : University of Queensland Press(Australia) |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Patrick White |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Australian drama |
ISBN | : 9780868199313 |
Author | : Patrick White |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2013-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250028671 |
"Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." —Annie Proulx "The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage." —The New York Times Book Review (cover review, 05/26/13) From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Eye of the Storm comes a vivid, visceral tale of childhood friendship and sexual awakening from beyond the echoes of World War II. Sydney, Australia, 1942. Two children, on the cusp of adolescence, have been spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter in a house on Neutral Bay, taken in by the charity of an old widow who wants little to do with them. The boy, Gilbert, has escaped the Blitz. The girl, Eirene, lost her father in a Greek prison. Left to their own devices, the children forge a friendship of startling honesty, forming a bond of uncommon complexity that they sense will shape their destinies for years to come. Patrick White's posthumously discovered novel, The Hanging Garden, which represents the first part of what was intended to be his final masterpiece, is a breathtaking and important literary event. Seamlessly shifting among points of view, and written in dazzling prose, Patrick White's mastery of style and highly inventive storytelling will transport you as the work of few writers can.