Patrick Whites Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960-2018

ISBN-13: 9781743327555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Denise Varney

Opis

One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting.In Patrick Whites Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of Whites eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks Whites complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.