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Subject	Playwrights
Events	It's Only a Play, Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale, VIC, 28 April 2023 Hello, Beautiful, The Bowery Theatre, St Albans, VIC, 27 May 2017 Hello, Beautiful!, Beckett Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC, 11 May 2016 Writing Angus, La Mama, Carlton, VIC, 20 January 2010 The Twilight Series, Collins Street Baptist Church, Melbourne, VIC, 21 May 2001 Burnt Piano, Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC, 20 August 1999 The Misanthrope, Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC, 29 December 1998 The Gift of the Gorgon, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, 27 January 1994 Present Laughter, Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC, 29 November 1990 Separation, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, 28 September 1988 Moliere, Key Studios, Melbourne, VIC, 1 September 1988 The Levine Comedy, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, 5 November 1986 Cheapside, Athenaeum Theatre Two, Melbourne, VIC, 31 May 1984 The Real Thing, Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, 8 February 1984 The Great Oscar Wilde Trial, La Mama, Carlton, VIC, 19 May 1977 Critic's Choice, University of Melbourne, Union Theatre, The University of Melbourne (Parkville), VIC, 13 January 1964 Lady in Danger, ABC Radio, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 15 October 1955 Anonymous Lover, Police Boys' Club Theatrette, Broken Hill, NSW, 26 March 1950
Resources	Anthology: Carolyn Pickett, Susan Pfisterer-Smith, Playing with ideas: Australian women playwrights from the suffragettes to the sixties, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 1999 Article: Alexander Porteous, Some recent Australian plays and problems of their criticism, Australian Literary Studies, 3, October, 1967, 83-97 Article: Brian Kiernan, Comic-satiric-realism: David Williamson's plays since 'The Department', Southerly, 46/1, March, 1986, 3-18 Article: Christopher Bedloe, Plays before 'The Doll', Muse, 145, (September), 1995, 6-7 Article: Christopher Thompson, HotHouse Theatre, The Complex Life of a Writer, HotHouse Theatre, 22 October 2002 Article: David Williamson, Actors, writers and the Carlton theatres, Elizabethan Trust News, Summer, 1972 Article: Douglas Stewart, The playwright in Australia, Australian Elizabethan Trust, Sydney, 1956, 9, 27 Article: Eric Irvin, The great Australian play, Quadrant, 20, 1 (January), 1976, 19-24 Article: Eunice Hanger, Playwrights have not had final word on 'Australian-ness', Australian Theatregoer, 1, 4 (May-July), 1961, 52-54 Article: Geoffrey Hutton, Playwrights in search of a direction, Overland, 67, 1977, 17-21 Article: Geoffrey Hutton, Voice of a playwright in the present tense, The Age, 1 July 1961, 17 Article: Greg Curran, Into the urban sprawl: Greg Curran looks at some new Australian plays, Masque, 12, Oct/Nov, 1969, 27-30 Article: Guide to playwriting in Australia, Theatre Australia, 5/9, May, 1981 Article: Helen Gilbert, 'Historical re-representation: performance and counter-discourse in Jack Davis' drama, New Literatures Review, 19, (Summer South), 1990, 91-101 Article: Helen Gilbert, The boomerang effect: canonical counter-discourse and David Malouf's 'Blood Relations' as an oppositional reworking of 'The Tempest', World literature written in English, 31/2, Autumn, 1991, 50-64 Article: Hugh Hunt, The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust...The Beginning, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Sydney, 1956, 10-11 Article: Irene Summy, Postscript to a debate: Irene Summy comments on the position of Australian playwrights, Masque, 11, August-September, 1969, 15-17 Article: Jean Wilhelm, Ibsen and Strindberg, Masque, 1/2, November-December, 1967, 8 Article: John McCallum, A new map of Australia: the plays of David Williamson, Australian Literary Studies, 11/3, May, 1984, 342-354 Article: John McCallum, The world outside: cosmopolitanism in the plays of Nowra and Sewell, Meanjin, 43/2, Winter, 1984, 286-296 Article: Katharine Brisbane, The late flowering of Ray Lawler, The Bulletin, 99/5049, 19 March, 1977, 47-48 Article: Katharine Brisbane, The young lions: playwrights leading the new nationalism, The Australian, 18 May, 1973, 7 Article: Kevon Kemp, What's wrong with the theatre: the writer's fault, The Bulletin, 83/4275, 20 January, 1962, 20-21 Article: Lindsey Browne, Nothing 'swampy' about Seymour, The Bulletin, 26 April, 1961, 14-15 Article: Marien Dreyer, The Australian playwright in his own land, Australian Theatregoer, 2/2-3, Dec 1961-Jan 1962, 1962, 40-42 Article: Marien Dreyer, What's wrong with writers: never ask a theatre, The Bulletin, 83/4277, 3 February, 1962, 19-20 Article: Max Harris, One Day of the Year! An account of the play's history and of the production at the Adelaide Arts Festival 1960, Australian Theatregoer, 1, 2 (Spring), 1960, 10-11 Article: Michael Gurr, Believing two things at once: [Keynote Address given at the annual conference of the Australasian Drama Studies Association at the University of Tasmania, Launceston, 4 July 2002.], Australasian Drama Studies, 42, April 2003, 3-13 Article: Michelle Arrow, Written out of history? The disappearance of Australia's women playwrights, Overland, 155 , Winter, 1999, 46-50 Article: Mona Brand, The writer in the theatre, The Australian Author, 1, 4, 1969, 15-19 Article: Patrick White Drama, Nation, 22 April, 1961, 5-6 Article: Paul McGillick, Jack Hibberd's anti-naturalism, Quadrant, 23/3, March, 1979, 42-47 Article: Ray Mathew, Three Australian plays, The Australian Highway, March, 1958, 4-6 Article: Sophie Elias, Political drama in Australia: Why and Wherefore? An interview with John Romeril, playwright, Commonwealth, 1979-1980, 4, 1979, 147-154 Article: T Fitzsimons, Writing in the margins: the theatrical voice of women, Overland, 136 (Spring), 1994, 27-29 Article: Veronica Kelly, The melodrama of defeat: political patterns in some colonial and contemporary Australian plays, Southerly, 50, 2 (June), 1990, 131-143 Book: Anne Pender, Susan Lever, Nick Enright: An Actor's Playwright, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2008 Book: Brian Kiernan, David Williamson, A Writer's Career, William Heinemann Australia, Port Melbourne, Victoria, 1990 Book: Brian Syron, Gerhard Fischer, Heiner Muller, Paul Behrendt, The Mudrooroo/Müller Project: A Theatrical Casebook, NSW University Press, Kensington, N.S.W., 1993 Book: Bruce Parr, Australian gay and lesbian plays, Currency Press, Sydney, 1996 Book: Chris Mead, What is an Australian Play? Have we Failed our Ethnic Writers?, Currency House, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., 2008 Book: Colleen Chesterman, Playing with time: women writing for performance, Playworks, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1995 Book: David B Moore, David Williamson's Jack Manning Trilogy: A Study Guide, Currency Press, Sydney, 2003 Book: Edwin Bronner, The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre 1900-1975, A. S. Barnes & Company Inc., San Diego and New York, 1980 Book: Elizabeth Perkins, The Plays of Alma De Groen, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1994 Book: Elizabeth Schafer, Peta Tait, Australian women's drama: texts and feminisms, Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 Book: J D Hainsworth, Hibberd, Methuen, Melbourne, 1987 Book: J R Dyce, Patrick White as playwright, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD, 1974 Book: Janis Balodis, The Ghosts Trilogy, Currency Press, Paddington, N.S.W., 1997 Book: Jennifer Palmer, Contemporary Australian playwrights, Adelaide University Union Press, Adelaide, 1979 Book: Joanne Tompkins, Julie Holledge, Performing Women/Performing Feminisms: Interviews with International Women Playwrights, ADSA Texts, St Lucia, 1997 Book: John McCallum, Belonging: Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, 2009 Book: Kerry Kilner, Sue Tweg, Playing The Past: Three Plays by Australian Women, Currency Press, Sydney, 1995 Book: Kristin Williamson, David Williamson: Behind the Scenes, Viking, Camberwell, Victoria, 2009 Book: Leslie Woolacott, Playwriting: An unconventional text-book, Currawong Publishing Company, Sydney NSW, 1942 Book: Liz Jones, The La Mama Collection: Six Plays for the 1990s, Currency Press, Sydney, 1997 Book: Margaret Williams, Drama, Australian Writers and their Work series, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1977 Book: May-Brit Akerholt, Patrick White, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1988 Book: Michelle Arrow, Upstaged: Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last, Pluto Press in association with Currency Press, Annandale, NSW, 2002 Book: Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, David Williamson, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1988 Book: Paul Depasquale, The writing of plays in South Australia to 1950, Pioneer Books, Warradale, South Australia, 1977 Book: Paul McGillick, Jack Hibberd, Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1988 Book: Peter Fitzpatrick, Stephen Sewell: The Playwright as Revolutionary, Currency Press, Sydney, 1991 Book: Peter Fitzpatrick, Williamson, Macmillan, North Ryde, NSW, 1987 Book: Peter Harcourt, A Dramatic Appearance: New Zealand Theatre 1920-1970, Methuen New Zealand, Wellington, 1978 Book: Veronica Kelly, Louis Nowra, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1987 Book: Veronica Kelly, The theatre of Louis Nowra, Currency, Sydney, 1998 Chapter: Alrene Sykes, Jack Hibberd and the new wave drama, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, QLD, 1986, 305-319 Chapter: Brian Kiernan, 'The ways we live now': David Williamson, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Sydney, N.S.W., 1997, 205-214 Chapter: Brian Kiernan, Some contemporary developments in Australian drama: Louis Nowra and Stephen Sewell, Faculty of Arts and Science, Edvard Kardelj University of L, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1983, 183-189 Chapter: David Williamson, Actors, writers and the Carlton theatres, Currency Press, Sydney, 1981, 61-65 Chapter: Lindsey Browne, To slum or not to slum: trends in Australian playwriting, F.P. Publications, Sydney, 1960, 49-51 Conference Paper: Michelle Arrow, Career playwrights: working women dramatists, 1928-1968, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Toowoomba, QLD, 1999, 90-97 Database: AustLit Database: The Australian Script Centre, Playwriting Australia, Currency Press, Playlab, AustralianPlays.org Report: Australian UNESCO Committee for Drama and Theatre, Report of the Australian UNESCO Conference on Playwriting, Adelaide 24-30 March 1962, Australian UNESCO Committee for Dance and Theatre, Adelaide, SA, 1962 Review: Collin O'Brien, Review: Jack Davis, Kullark and The Dreamers, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies c/- Department of English, Unive, St. Lucia, Queensland, 2, 1, October 1983, 125 - 126 Review: David OʻDonnell, Review: Michelanne Forester and Vivienne Plumb, Twenty New Zealand Playwrights, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 64, April 2014, 366 - 371 Review: Katherine Newey, Review: Adrienne Scullion, ed. Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Century, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 29, October 1996, 232 - 233 Review: Rachel Fensham, Review: Colleen Chesterman with Virginia Baxter, eds. Playing with Time, Women Writers for Performance, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 29, October 1996, 235 - 238 Thesis: William Scott Lancaster, Pioneering national drama: Ray Lawler's contributions to Australian theatre, East Texas State University, Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms, 1956 Websites / Online media: Helen Brooks, Great War Theatre Project, 2016
Subject Identifier	1088

Researching Australian live performance