Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White

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  • Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White Book Detail

  • Author : Denise Varney
  • Release Date : 2018-09-15
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Genre : Performing Arts
  • Pages : 162
  • ISBN 13 : 1783088370
  • File Size : 77,77 MB
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Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White by Denise Varney PDF Summary

Book Description: In the early 1960s the board of governors of the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia rejected two Patrick White plays, The Ham Funeral in 1962 and Night on Bald Mountain in 1964. Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White documents the scandal that followed the board’s rejections of White’s plays, especially as it acted against the advice of its own drama committee and artistic director on both occasions. Denise Varney and Sandra D’Urso analyze the two events by drawing on the performative behaviour of the board of governors to focus on the question of governance. They shed new light on the cultural politics that surrounded the rejections, arguing that it represents an instance of executive governance of cultural production, in this case theatre and performance. The central argument of the book is that aesthetic modernism in theatre and drama struggled to achieve visibility and acceptability, and posed a threat to the norms and values of early to mid-twentieth-century Australia. The recent productions indicate that despite the Adelaide Festival’s early hostile rejections, White’s plays endure.

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“Varney combines a theoretically astute sense of the hybridity of the dramatic event, with a dense but lucidly rendered sociological history of White’s play

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Patrick White was one of the world's main literary figures, but often neglected as a playwright outside Australia. His first four plays, performed between 1961-