Global Utilities

Theatre and Drama Program

Australasian Drama Studies

Performance Studies in Australia
Edited by Gay McAuley, Glenn D’Cruz and Alison Richards
A special focus issue of Australasian Drama Studies
Number 39 October 2001

Contents:

Editorial Foreword

Performance Studies: Definitions, Methodologies, Future Directions
GAY McAULEY

Performance Studies in Australia Today: a Survey of the Field
GLENN D’CRUZ

Learning in/Through Crisis
IAN MAXWELL

Shaking the Frame: Erving Goffman and Performance Studies
ALISON RICHARDS

Toil and Traffic: Australian Appropriations of the Suzuki Method
HELEN GILBERT and JACQUELINE LO

The Dialectics of Inter-Cultural Performance: Towards a Historiographic Cross-Cultural Praxis
JONATHAN MARSHALL

‘The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same…’? Feminisms and Performance Studies
KERRIE SCHAEFER and LAURA GINTERS

Performance Studies: a Tour Through the Field
JONATHAN BOLLEN

Discourses of an ‘International’ Disciplinary F ormation: Australian and International Performance Studies Conference Diaries 1991-2001
RACHAEL FENSHAM

Discussing Theory-Practice Relationships in Performance: a Round-Table Discussion with Annette Tesoriero, Tess de Quincey,Deborah Pollard, John Baylis, David Pledger, Josephine Wilson
PETER ECKERSALL

Reviews:

HELEN THOMSON, Meat Party by Duong Le Quy

DENISE VARNEY, Life After George by Hannie Rayson

BARBARA JOSEPH, Sweet Road by Deborah Oswald

GEOFFREY MILNE, Melbourne Stories: Three Plays: Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela; Polly Blue by Belinda Bradley; Features of Blown Youth by Raimondo Cortese

TOM BURVILL, The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance by Laurence Senelick

REBECCA PELAN, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel by Nicholas Grene

JACQUELINE LO, The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization by Rustom Bharucha

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