TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,Margaret
TI  - Transfigured stages: major practitioners and theatre aesthetics in Australia 
T2  - Australian playwrights
SN  - 9789401200554
AV  - PR9611.2 .H36 2011eb
U1  - 822/.009 23
CY  - Amsterdam, New York, NY
PB  - Rodopi.
KW  - Australian drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Performance art
KW  - Australia
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232) and index; Preliminary Material -- List of Figures -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Open City and the Politics of the Everyday -- The Sydney Front and Grotesque Realism -- Jenny Kemp’s Landscapes of the Psyche -- The Aboriginal Protesters Confront the Postdramatic Text -- An International Perspective on the Postdramatic Theatre Text -- (Trans)forming the Lexicon of “Theatre” in Australia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 – 1993) and Open City (1987 – ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory to analyse performances by these artists, as well as theatre productions by Jenny Kemp and others. These performance practitioners are considered as part of an international paradigm attesting to forms of theatre that no longer operate according to the established principles of drama. This book also highlights the complexity of Indigenous theatre through its analysis of the Mudrooroo-Müller project staged in 1996
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401200554
ER  -