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Subject	Criticism
Events	Truth, Merlyn Theatre @ CUB Malthouse, Southbank, VIC, 13 February 2025 Whispers (on critical conversations), Basement Theatre Studio, Auckland, New Zealand, 5 November 2022 Soulmates, Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC, 10 July 2002 The Misanthrope, Fairfax Studio, Melbourne, VIC, 29 December 1998 Amy's View, Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC, 17 June 1998 After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound, Playhouse, Melbourne, VIC, 4 July 1997 Man Speaking, St Martins Theatre, South Yarra, VIC, 23 May 1966 Critic's Choice, University of Melbourne, Union Theatre, The University of Melbourne (Parkville), VIC, 13 January 1964
Resources	Article: Adrian Kiernander, Hissing the critic, Meanjin, 53, 3, 1994, 455-459 Article: Alan Lawson, Celebrating (in) the margins: Australian literary criticism and the bicentenary, Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, 8, December, 1992, 174-182 Article: Alan Seymour, One image of Australia, Meanjin Quarterly, 26, 2, 1967, 223ff Article: Alan Seymour, Thoughts on theatre, Masque, March-April, 1968, 24-32 Article: Alexander Archdale, There's hope for the theatre, Meanjin Quarterly, 23, 1964, 303-319 Article: Alexander Porteous, Some recent Australian plays and problems of their criticism, Australian Literary Studies, 3, October, 1967, 83-97 Article: Brian Hoad, On the chopping block, The Bulletin, 99/5093, 31 January, 1978, 18-21 Article: Colin Robert Badger, The writing on the wall for the Elizabethan Theatre Trust unless..., Critic, 5, 14 February, 1964 Article: Colin Robert Badger, What next for the Trust?, Adult Education, 10 (September), 1965, 6-10 Article: Colin Robert Badger, You can trust the Trust to make a complete hash of it, The Bulletin, 86, 11 April, 1964, 24 Article: D Douglas, Australian theatre and the stages wrongs, Overland, 91, May, 1983, [no pages] Article: David Allen, What the theatre needs is... criticism, Island Magazine, 9/10, March, 1982, 50-52 Article: Denis O'Brien, Adelaide Festival - relaxing into insignificance?, The Bulletin, 90, 23 March, 1968, 32-34 Article: Denis O'Brien, The Trust: not only survival, also another day, The Bulletin, 6 July, 1968, 55 Article: Dennis Altman, Gay theatre: not very much of it, and what there is, not very gay, Meanjin, 43/1, Autumn, 1984, 168-172 Article: Don Dunstan, Arts festivals - are they worth it?, Issue, 5 (February), 1970, 1-3 Article: Don Reid, Some aspects of the current controversy over the Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The Australian Highway, 46, Spring, 1966, 3-5 Article: Elizabeth Perkins, Too real or not reel: a decade of directions in Australian drama, LinQ, 7, 1, 1979, 17-33 Article: G Branson, What's wrong with the theatre: some case histories, The Bulletin, 83/4275, 20 January, 1962, 21 Article: Harry Heseltine, A critical time for theatre and drama, Meanjin Quarterly, 23, 1964, 334-335 Article: Howard McNaughton, Australian drama and its critics, Span, 15, 1982, 21-25 Article: Irene Summy, Postscript to a debate: Irene Summy comments on the position of Australian playwrights, Masque, 11, August-September, 1969, 15-17 Article: J Sykes, Theatre under scrutiny, The Canberra Times, 7 June 1994, 12 Article: Kevon Kemp, What's wrong with the theatre: the writer's fault, The Bulletin, 83/4275, 20 January, 1962, 20-21 Article: Leonard Radic, Thoughts on the Australian theatre, Prospect, 1, 2, 1958, 27-28 Article: Leonard Radic, Thoughts on the Australian theatre, Prospect, 3, 3, 1960, 17-19 Article: Louis Van Eyssen, Australian arts festivals - are they worth it?, Issue, 5, February, 1970, 3-5 Article: Margaret Williams, Australian drama - a postscript: some comments on recent criticism, Meanjin Quarterly, 31/4, Summer, 1972, 444-448 Article: Marien Dreyer, What's wrong with writers: never ask a theatre, The Bulletin, 83/4277, 3 February, 1962, 19-20 Article: Maryrose Casey, Nindethana and the National Black Theatre: Interrogating the mythology of the New Wave criticism, Australasian Drama Studies, 36, April 2000, 19-33 Article: Murray Bramwell, Reviewing the reviewers: thoughts on the place of criticism in the theatre, Island Magazine, 41, Summer, 1989, 44-47 Article: P H Davison, Three Australian plays: national myths under criticism, Southerly, 1963, 2 Article: P Rolfe, Adelaide - the third time up - or is the Festival too much of a good thing?, The Bulletin, 86, 21 March, 1964, 38-39 Article: S Rooke, Adelaide Festival retrospective - drama in the doldrums. A critical review of the 5th Festival, Masque, 1/5, May-June, 1968, 36-37 Article: The bit players: bases of argument in the Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Nation, 12 August, 1961, 14-16 Article: Veronica Kelly, 'Un Sans Culotte': The Bulletin's early theatre criticism and the masculine bohemian masquerade, Australian Literary Studies, 19, 3 (May), 2000, 254-268 Article: W McVitty, As others see the Doll: American reaction, The Bulletin, 24 January, 1959, 32 Book: Angela Bennie, Crème de la phlegm: unforgettable Australian reviews, Miegunyah Press, Carlton, Victoria, 2007 Book: Chris Mead, What is an Australian Play? Have we Failed our Ethnic Writers?, Currency House, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., 2008 Book: Leslie Rees, Australian drama 1970-1985: a historical and critical survey, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1987 Book: Leslie Rees, Australian drama in the 1970s: a historical and critical survey, Angus & Robertson, London, 1978 Chapter: Adam Shoemaker, Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 selected work criticism, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1989, 231-264 Chapter: Alrene Sykes, Australian drama: the last thirty years, University of Rajasthan, 15, 1982, 41-47 Database: AustLit Letter: J Moses, [Letter in reply to F.R. Harvey's criticism of the A.E.T.T. and editorial comment], Australian Theatregoer, 1/4, (May-July), 1961, 10-11 Thesis: Desley Anne Straker, A study of five contemporary Australian plays, University of Queensland, 1963 Thesis: John McCallum, Some preoccupations in Australian theatre criticism from 1955 to 1978, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, 1981
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Researching Australian live performance