ADS Journal Recent Issues

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1. Issue 084 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial
4. ‘Poor Gaels Are Tormented, Troubled and in Sorry Plight’: Reimagining an Anti-Colonial Irish Performance Tradition Through the Voices of Australian Female Convicts – Melita Rowston
5. Witnessing Touch in Theatre-Making Processes: Exploring Agency for ‘Witness-Participants’ of Staged Intimacy and Violence – Susan Fenty Studham and Gabrielle Metcalf
6. His Book, Her Play: Kate Mulvany’s Adaptations of Masquerade and Jasper Jones – David Simes
7. The Audience as Social Collective: The Role of Intra-Audience Interaction in the Communication of Narrative in Immersive Theatre – Melissa Herburg
8. The Rough and the Tumble: Queer Themes in Robert Lord’s Plays – Chris Brickell
9. ‘Hello Person That Is Me’: Voices of Regional Youth in Playwriting Projects – David Megarrity, Jenna Gillett-Swan and Maisie Crosdale
10. Embedding Indigenous Perspectives within Actor Training: An Account of Inclusive Teaching Practices – Andrea L. Moor and Nicole Reilly
11. The Flower and the Frame: On Transplanting an Heirloom Play into Fresh Ground – Jane Woollard and Peta Murray
12. Imaging People Who Use Drugs: How Parliamentary Actors Picture and Tell Stories about the Subjects of Drug Law Reform – Sean Mulcahy and Kate Seear
13. Remember My Name: The Critical Role of ‘Selves’ in Transformative Acting – Suzie J. Jarmain
14. Bodies of Truth: Considering the Ethics of Physical Dramaturgy in Documentary Theatre – Missy Mooney
15. Waltzing Around the Veranda: Reclaiming the Dandy in Australian Bush Drama – Matthew Bapty
16. Review
17. Contributors

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1. Issue 083 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial
4. Performing Arts and the Climate Emergency: Horizon-Scanning the Futures of Practice and Scholarship Susanne Thurow, Helena Grehan and Jane Davidson
5. The Myth of the Resilient Artist: Goodwill and In-Kind Contribution in the Performing Arts Sector Rea Dennis and Katy Maudlin
6. Pivoting ‘Resilience’: Australian Women Playwrights, Community and the COVID-19 Crisis Rebecca Clode and Julieanne Lamond
7. Performing Precarity and Transilience Rand Hazou
8. Femme Queen Energy: Community as Protest and Embodied Transfeminine Resistance in Vogue Ballroom Tristan Niemi
9. Digital Dance Practices: A Model for New Mobility in Performing Arts Rebecca Weber
10. The Brink: Receptive Generosity and Kindness in the Development of a Choreographic Pedagogy of Consent for Actor Training Samantha Chester and Renée Newman
11. Emotional Aesthetic(s): Re:orienting Desires Joanna Cook
12. In the Ruins of the Future: The Role of the Creative Artist in a Time of ‘Thin’ Belief Julian Meyrick
13. Reviews
14. Contributors

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1. Issue 082 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial
4. Provocation #1: Why I Make Theatre: For Now – A Theatre of the Everyday Raimondo Cortese
5. Performance Improvisation: No Former Performer Has Performed This Performance Before and the Aesthetics of Play Rea Dennis, Penny Baron, Carolyn Hanna
6. ‘Brave Space’: Investigating Consent and Boundaries as a Framework for Culturally Safe Collaborative Arts Practice Sarah Austin, Isabella Vadiveloo
7. The 1948 Old Vic Tour: Viv and Larry Down Under Chris Hay
8. A Workshop in Process: The Playwrights Workshop in Aotearoa Murray Edmond
9. The 25th Anniversary Tour of Krishnan’s Dairy: Touring Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID-19 Pandemic James Wenley .
10. Navigating the Staging of Richard Brome’s ‘Comic Therapy’ in The Sparagus Garden Kim Durban
11. Our Own Time and Space: Locating Autistic Poetics in Theatre Sarah Wilson
12. A Playwright in Exile: Mammad Aidani Russell Fewster
13. Provocation #2 Brisbane Festival’s Hyperlocal Hope: The Dramaturgical Feat of Live and In-Person Programming During COVID-19 Hannah-Leigh Mason
14. Reviews
15. Contributors

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1. Issue 081 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial: Queer Performance Jonathan Bollen , Alyson Campbelland, Liza-Mare Syron
4. Koori Gras: A radical celebration of sparkling defiance – Liza-Mare Syron
5. An HIV love story: Jacob Boehme’s Blood on the Dance Floor’s queer and Indigenous revolt – Jacob Boehme, Alyson Campbell and Jonathan Graffam
6. Tracing Transitions – Stace Callaghan and Leah Mercer
7. A Queer Performance New Wave in Sydney: Inside Club Bent 1995-1998–exploring hybridity and community – Catherine Fargher
8. The Future is Now: Queer Utopian Longing and the Utopian Performative in Today x Future in Metro Manila – Ian Rafael Ramirez
9. “Show me how you do it down under”: Realness at The West Ball II and the translation of vogue ballroom in Australia – Billy Kanafani
10. Theatre as a Space of Resistance and Protest: Queer Politics and Colour of Trans 2.0 – Neethu Das. K and Vellikkeel Raghavan
11. “We’ll meet you underground”: transcultural performance practices in queer space and time – Jeremy Neideck, Nathan Stoneham, Younghee Park, and M’ck McKeague
12. Birds of A Feather: On Queerness, Performance, The Coming Back Out Ball, and LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club – Peta Murray, Adelaide Rief, Marnie Badham, Tristan Meecham, Bec Reid, Lenine Bourke
13. A Rainbow in the Age of Covid: Contemporary Queer Theatre in Aotearoa – James Wenley and Nathan Joe
14. Reviews
15. Contributors
16. test

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1. Issue 080 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial Yoni Prior
4. Looking Forwards to the 1950s: Utilising the Concept of Hauntology to Investigate Australian Theatre History Julian Meyrick
5. Before Neo-Burlesque, There Was Queer Cabaret: Revisiting Queer Performances from Melbourne in the 1990s Maude Davey
6. Shadows of the Australian Performing Arts Ecology Görkem Acaroğlu
7. ‘Time’s Up, Motherf*%ker’: Emasculation and Restaging Justice for Women in Aotearoa New Zealand Nicola Hyland
8. The Use of Irony in Pākehā Performance Adriann Smith
9. Director/Mother/Outlaw Katy Maudlin
10. Traversing the Proscenium: Audience Enworlding in Musical Theatre Stuart Grant, Narelle Yeo and Melissa Fenton
11. ‘What Do You Mean We Aren’t Performing Shakespeare?’: A Contemporary, Devised Performance Curriculum at a Regional Australian University Gillian Arrighi, Clare Irvine, Brian Joyce and Carine
12. Between Freedom and Control: A Chorus-Centred Bakkhai for Community Ensemble Vahri McKenzie
13. Driving “Transformational change”: using ecodramaturgy to develop a more sustainable theatre ecosystem Dr Saffron Benner
14. Oppression and allyship in Australia’s Deaf Arts. Racheal Missingham and Bree Hadley
15. Reviews
16. Contributors

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1. Issue 079 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial Pia Johnson and Miles O’Neil
4. A Conversation Between Performance Photographers Brett Boardman and Jeff Busby, with Notes by Heidrun Lohr Pia Johnson
5. The Intimate and the Epic in Plunge: A Writer-Director’s Approach to Heterarchical Composition Kate Shearer
6. A Performative Investigation of the Agency of Sound: Mapping the Sound/ Soundscape Portrait Angela Viora
7. ‘Where’s the AV Guy?’: A Conversation with Rhian Hinkley, Margie Medlin and Nick Roux Yoni Prior
8. Seed Value: Collaboration and Creative Development in Composed Theatre David Megarrity
9. Siren Song: Strengthening Community through Sonic Insurgency Miles O’Neil
10. Towards a Post-Pandemics of Sound in Performance Chris Wenn
11. Liveness in the Digital Age: Performance Case Studies Russell Fewster, Geordie Brookman and Richard Chew
12. Authenticity within Digital Performance: A New Framework to Understand the Relationship between Audience, Vision Technology and Scenography Tessa Rixon, Gene Moyle, Steph Hutchison and Joslin
13. A Feminist Lens in the Rehearsal Room: On the Bodily Education of Young Girls Pia Johnson in conversation with Adena Jacobs
14. Genealogies of Darkness Paul Jackson
15. A Sound Conversation: Performance-Makers and Sound Practices with Roslyn Oades, Madeleine Flynn and Tamara Saulwick Kate Hunter
16. Reviews
17. Contributors

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1. Issue 078 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial Yoni Prior
4. Staging Music in Shakespeare Richard Fotheringham
5. From Bejewelled Crucifix to Modern Dress: ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’ from Wilkie to Bell Rachel Fensham
6. Visualising the Story of Theatre in Sydney: Venues, Repertoire and Change, 1920–2020 Jonathan Bollen
7. The Guthrie Report and Its Discontents Chris Hay
8. Recognising the Face of Australian Theatre: Authentic Diversity and the Case of Metanoia Glenn D’Cruz in interview with Görkem Acaroğlu, Shane Grant and Greg Ulfan
9. ‘It Caught the Zeitgeist’: Interview with Andrew Bovell Nathan Hastie
10. ‘Sustained Personal Contact’: Recent Australian Productions on Tour in China Anne Pender
11. What Are The Ties That Hold Us Together? The Smartphone Networks in As If No One Is Watching and Body of Knowledge Abbie Victoria Trott
12. Reviews
13. Contributors

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1. Issue 077 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Contents
3. Editorial: Regional Theatre in Australia Jennifer Beckett, Rachel Fensham and Paul Rae
4. Passionate, Not Parochial: Local Theatre in Launceston Asher Warren and Jane Woollard
5. Flexible Theatrics in Early Goldfields Ballarat Ailsa Brackley du Bois
6. The Suitcase Royale: Sonic Explorations of Gothic Victorian Towns Miles O’Neil
7. A Community of Producers: A Conversation about Vocabulary, Weather, Creative Problem-Cracking, Distance and Performance in Regional Western Australia Chloe Flockhart and Paul McPhail
8. A Gym for Empathy: A Conversation about Regional Migrant Stories, Theatre and the Banquet of Life Elena Carapetis and Anthony Peluso
9. The Anchor, the Centre, the Shelter, the Dwelling: A Conversation about Contemporary Theatre Practice in Regional Australia Jude Anderson and Joe Toohey
10. That Very Specific Place: A Regional Australian Theatre Conversation Ros Abercrombie, Paul McPhail, Anthony Peluso and Joe Toohey
11. The Economic Aesthetics of Three Regional, Unpaid-Led Theatre-Producing Companies Anna Loewendahl
12. Ariel Songs: Performing Cultural Ecologies of Ballarat Angela Campbell, Tanja Beer, Richard Chew and Kim Durban
13. ‘It Was a Cracker’: Listening in to Youth Audiences, Regional and Urban, with Show Reports Abbie Victoria Trott
14. Desert Stages: The Place of Theatre in the Barkly Region’s Creative Ecology Sarah Woodland and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet
15. ‘Dreaming, It Is Like Breathing Air’ Edwin Lee Mulligan and Dalisa Pigram Ross
16. Shared Bodies: Dramaturgies of/for Listening and Hearing Angela Conquet
17. Reviews
18. Contributors

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1. Issue 076 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Abstracts
3. Editorial Yoni Prior
4. Dancing, Marching and Baton Twirling with the Virgin: Performing Community at the Peñafrancia Festival in the Philippines William Peterson
5. Festivals, Funerals and Circuses: The Impact of Space and Design in the Construction of Meaning and Audience Experience Natalie Lazaroo and Jennifer Penton
6. Polyfest Postponed: Performing ‘Us’ in Christchurch in 2019 Tony McCaffrey
7. Disciplined Subjects and Social Performance: Entertainments at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1873–1906 Jonathan W. Marshall
8. Wassailing and Festive Music in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Kathryn Roberts Parker
9. Local Archive, Distant Reading: Performance Space at Cleveland Street and Carriageworks Caroline Wake and Boni Cairncross
10. Enacting Restorative Justice: Shakespeare and Tikanga Māori in Cellfish (2017) Rand Hazou
11. Hold On: Australian Innovations in Access Aesthetics Madeleine Little, Sarah Austin and Eddie Paterson
12. Contemporary Performance and Climate Change: Re-defining the Australian Landscape Narrative Linda Hassall
13. Celebrating Fifty Years in Prague: Reflections on Australian Scenographic Identity through the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space Tessa Rixon and Sarah Winter
14. Entanglements with Time: Staging Duration and Repetition in the Theatre Deborah Pollard
15. An Actress Weeps: Corporeal Dissonance in the Actor’s Experience of Performing Testimony in Eduardo Coutinho’s Jogo de Cena Rea Dennis
16. Shifting Hybridity: An Intercultural Arab–Australian Shadow Theatre Performance Lynne Kent
17. Review
18. Contributors

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1. Issue 075 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Editorial: The Actress in the 21st Century Mary Luckhurst
3. Woman as Subject: Critical Perspectives of Australian Commercially Successful Plays with Leading Roles for Female Actresses Margaret Haining and Caroline Heim
4. Interview with Candy Bowers – Intersectionality and the Australian Theatre Industry Sarah French
5. Nicole Kidman: Transformation and the Business of Acting Mary Luckhurst
6. Interview with Zoe Coombs Marr Miles O’Neil
7. Vanishing Acts: The Actress and the Archibald Prize Fiona Gregory
8. Interview with Julie Forsyth – Career Visibility: ‘You Need Someone Who Sees You’ Yoni Prior
9. Performing Technical Innovation: The Pioneering Audio Work of Tamara Saulwick Miles O’Neil
10. Interview with Margi Brown Ash – Finding Balance: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Female Performers Lynne Bradley
11. Cross-Gender Playing Techniques: Actresses and Innovation in the Portrayal of Female Jingju (Beijing /Peking Opera) Roles Megan Evans
12. Interview with Yoni Prior Miles O’Neil
13. Musical Theatre and Australian Leading Ladies: Legacies of the Past and Current Challenges – ‘How Lucky We Are to Be Alive Right Now’ Trevor Jones
14. Playing with Extremes: The Travelling Sisters and Contemporary Sketch Comedy Sarah Peters
15. Reviews
16. Contributors

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1. Issue 074 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Editorial
3. The NDIS and Disability Arts in Australia: Opportunities and Challenges Bree Hadley, Gerard Goggin et al
4. Verbatim Theatre and a Dramaturgy of Belonging Sarah Peters
5. A West End Celebrity Proselytises the Bonds of Empire: Seymour Hicks and Bruce Bairnsfather’s Old Bill in 1920s Australia Veronica Kelly
6. Visions of Restorative Justice in Theatre, Theory and Practice Paul Dwyer, J.R. Martin and Michele Zappavigna
7. Breathtaking Performance: a room with no air’s Exhaustive Aesthetics of Holocaust Memory Bryoni Trezise
8. Playing the Edinburgh Lottery: Six Decades of New Zealand Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe James Wenley
9. Toward an Ethical Practice: Child Performers in Contemporary Performance for Adult Audiences Sarah Austin
10. Creating Feminine/ist Theatre: Écriture Féminine as a Framework for Directors Laura Hartnell
11. Ranters: Rehearsal and Development Process – How Is the Text Enacted? Raimondo Cortese
12. The Veil of Queer Aesthetics: Lindsay Kemp and the Subtext of Gay Desire in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé Gerrard Carter
13. Reviews
14. Contributors

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1. Issue 073 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Editorial – Turangawaewae: A Place to Stand in Contemporary Indigenous Performance in Australasia and Beyond Nicola Hyland, Liza-Mare Syron and Maryrose Casey
3. Foreword Anne Marshal
4. The Hepatitis C Trilogy: A case for Indigenous theatre as a contemporary manifestation of traditional healing business. Blayne Welsh
5. Shot Bro: A Theatrical Korero about Depression and Suicide in Aotearoa/ New Zealand Sally Richards
6. Engaging with Local First Nations Communities through the Performing Arts Denise Wilson, Tandi Palmer Williams, Karilyn Brown and Liza-Mare Syron
7. A Renaissance in Wellington Maori Theatre Tanemahuta Gray
8. Transnational Connections: First Nations Conversations through Making Performance Liza-Mare Syron
9. Namatjira: Beyond the Script – Visual and Performative Aesthetics as Conduits for the Communication of Western Aranda Ontology Susanne Thurow
10. WOER WAYEPA – The Water Is Rising: A Torres Strait Islander Approach to Knowledge Mobilisation, and Saibaian Approach to Cultural Knowledge Transference to Performative Storytelling Margare
11. Performances of Belonging Maryrose Casey
12. A Conscious Un-couplet: Wahine Maori Stand Up to Shakespeare Nicola Hyland
13. Choreographed Pasts: A Historiographic Inquiry into Australian and Indigenous Australian Concert Dance Luke Forbes
14. Finding a Sense of Place in the Pacific Diaspora: Pasifika Performance in Aotearoa David O’Donnell
15. The Whanau We Have Always Had: The Future Is Indigenous Hone Kouka
16. Reviews
17. Contributors

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1. Issue 072 (Full Issue PDF)
2. Editorial
   Julian Meyrick, Yoni Prior, Meredith Rogers
3. Harry Lyons Is ‘Here, There and Everywhere’: Australia’s Late-19th-Century Global Entertainment Broker
   Gillian Arrighi
4. A ‘Great Anti-War Play’: Bury the Dead on the World Stage
   Lisa Milner
5. Landscapes as Graveyards: Spectral Return and Performativity in the Contested Landscape
   Jonathon W. Marshall, Emily Duncan
6. Postcard from the Edge: Tom Holloway’s Beyond the Neck and the Limits of Verbatim
   Caroline Wake
7. Diagrams of Influence: A Model for Charting Artistic Lineages
   Melanie Beddie
8. The Precarious Lives of Actors
   Ian Maxwell, Mark Seton, Marianna Szabó
9. 148 Weekly Ticket Footscray – A Fifteen-Year Audience
   Merophie Carr
10. Divisive Dramaturgy: Community Engagement in Contemporary Mediated Publics
    Asher Warren
11. Reviews
12. Contributors