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1 online resource |
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Anthem studies in theatre and performance |
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Anthem studies in theatre and performance.
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| Contents |
Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter Int-5; Introduction; Founding a Festival; Dramatis Personae; The Scene; Governing Culture; Notes; Chapter 1 The Archive, Governance and Sovereignty; The Archives; Not Censoring, Rejecting; Risk; A Climate of Censorship; Governors and Governance; Sovereignty; Notes; Chapter 2 'Words Fail Me': The Ham Funeral and the 1962 Adelaide Festival; The Archives: Folders Tied with Ribbon; Reading The Ham Funeral: A Play in Two Acts |
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The Idea of Staging The Ham FuneralA Distinguished Australian Author; Widening the Discussion: Expert Reviews; Majority and Minority Reports; Majority Report; Minority Report; 'As for the Abortion in the Dust Bin ... Really, Words Fail Me'; The Aftermath; Anti-theatricalism; Notes; Chapter 3 Night on Bald Mountain and the 1964 Adelaide Festival; 'The Mountain ... It Traps People'; Aesthetics of the Occult; In the Archive: The Proposal, the Negotiations and the Rejection of Night on Bald Mountain; The Board of Governors: Deciding the Fate of Night on Bald Mountain; Notes |
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Chapter 4 The 'Clowns' Who 'Cling to The Past': A Sovereign Decision and the Practice of Exclusion'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'; The 'Clowns' Who 'Cling to the Past'; Decision Making and Sovereignty; The Politics of Discourse; Governing Culture: Contemporary Disputes; Friends and Enemies; Notes; Chapter 5 The Sovereignty of the Plays and Opportunities for New Publics; Notes; End Matter; Index |
| Summary |
"Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White' details the rejection of two Patrick White plays - 'The Ham Funeral' and 'Night on Bald Mountain"--By the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 21, 2018) |
| Subject |
White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
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| SUBJECT |
White, Patrick, 1912-1990 fast |
| Subject |
Theater -- Australia.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Australia
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Theater
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
D'Urso, Sandra, author.
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| ISBN |
9781783088379 |
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1783088370 |
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1783088362 |
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9781783088362 |
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