Theatre and Drama Program
Australasian Drama Studies
Contemporary Music Theatre in Australia
Edited by Keith Gallasch and Laura Ginters
A special focus issue of Australasian Drama Studies
Issue 45 October 2004
Contents
Australian music theatre: continuity and hybridity
KEITH GALLASCH and LAURA GINTERS
‘A comfortable society’: the 1950s and opera in Australia
MICHAEL HALLIWELL
Larry Sitsky’s The Golem: the esoteric opera
ANTONY ERNST
Matricide and the female divine
HELEN RUSAK
Operatic tradition and ambivalence in Chamber Made Opera’s Recital
JONATHAN MARSHALL
A music theatre life: LYNDON TERRACINI
interviewed by KEITH GALLASCH
Mata Hara and the missionary position: Australian double agents in the seduction of randai
DOUG LEONARD, INDIJA MAHJOEDDIN and ADRIAN SHERRIFF
Suspension, introspection and contradiction: the songs of The Threepenny Opera in rehearsal
MIRANDA HECKENBERG
‘Australian-ness’ in musical theatre: a bran nue dae for Australia?
PETER WYLLIE JOHNSTON
Reviews:
PETER HOLBROOK, William Shakespeare, ‘The Merchant of Venice’ ed. Charles Edelman
LEAH MERCER, Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous ed. Eric Prenowitz
BRIAN SINGLETON, Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader ed. Edward Scheer
PAUL MAKEHAM, The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader ed. Michael Huxley and Noel Witts
JONATHAN BOLLEN, Performance: Recasting the Political in Theatre and Beyond by Stephen Chinna
SUE RIDER, The Parsons Lectures: The Philip Parsons Memorial Lectures on the Performing Arts 1993-2003 ed. Katharine Brisbane and Don’t Tell Me, Show Me: Directors Talk About Acting by Adam Macaulay
HELENA GREHAN, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage ed. Elizabeth Schafer and Susan Bradley Smith.
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