Australasian Drama Studies

Issue 36, April 2000

Contents

NEIL ARMFIELD AND GEOFFREY RUSH
The 1999 Rex Cramphorn memorial lecture: Tearing the cat

MARYROSE CASEY
Nindethana and the National Black Theatre: interrogating the mythology of the New Wave

MURRAY EDMOND
The 'original' Downstage and the theatre of its history

MIKE FOSTER
Community/communitas: renegotiating community theatre today. An interview with Graham Pitts

PAUL MAKEHAM
'The city's surrounded by fire': Michael Gow's The Kid

JULIA MANT
The testimonial stage: theatrical presentations of the prisoner of war, 1995

BILL DUNSTONE
'Orders of nature': press, gender and performance in colonial Western Australia 1839-1880

MARGARET WILLIAMS and HILARY GOLDER
Fighting Jack: a brief Australia melodrama

Reviews

MEREDITH ROGERS
The woman in the Window by Alma De Groen

GEOFFREY MILNE
Chilling and Killing my Annabel Lee by Aidan Fennessy and Secret Bridesmaid's Business by Elizabeth Coleman

MELISSA WESTERN
X-Stacey by Margery Forde

JULIAN MEYRICK
The Dogs Play and a A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock by Tee O'Neill