Australasian Drama Studies

Issue 35, October 1999

Contents

MARK ST LEON
Introduction

REG BOLTON
Circus as education

RICHARD WATERHOUSE
Travelling shows in rural Australia 1850-1915

MIMI COLLIGAN
Circus in theatre: Astley's amphitheatre, Melbourne 1854-1857

GAVIN ROBBINS
The passion and totality of your body, mind and soul: an interview with Nigel Jamieson

LYNN EVERETT
Thrills and spills: the precarious life of Circus Monoxide

JOHN WHITEOAK
The development of Australian Circus Music

DAVID C S SISSONS
Japanese acrobatic troupes touring Australasia 1867-1900

YORAM S CARMELI
Mimicry, display and play of the real: a trainer and 'big cats' in a circus den

CATHY J BARRETT and HEATHER VALLANCE
The wild west show: socio-historic spectacle and character as circus 

PETA TAIT
Circus bodies as theatre animals

NICOLA  BRACKERTZ
The battle for colonial circus supremacy: John Bull, Uncle Sam and their 'Chariots of Fire' 

MARK ST LEON
Noms d'arena: the use of pseudonyms in Australian circus

SUE BROADWAY
Circus Oz - the first seven years: a memoir

Reviews

MURRAY BRAMWELL
The Blind Giant is Dancing the rev. ed by Stephen Sewell

JOANNE TOMPKINS
Natural Life adapted by Humphrey Bower