Australasian Drama Studies
Number 39 October 2001
Performance Studies in Australia
Edited by Gay McAuley, Glenn D’Cruz and Alison Richards
A special focus issue of Australasian Drama Studies
Contents
Editorial Foreword
Performance Studies: Definitions, Methodologies, Future Directions
GAY McAULEY
Performance Studies in Australia Today: a Survey of the Field
GLENN D’CRUZ
Learning in/Through Crisis
IAN MAXWELL
Shaking the Frame: Erving Goffman and Performance Studies
ALISON RICHARDS
Toil and Traffic: Australian Appropriations of the Suzuki Method
HELEN GILBERT and JACQUELINE LO
The Dialectics of Inter-Cultural Performance: Towards a Historiographic Cross-Cultural Praxis
JONATHAN MARSHALL
‘The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same…’? Feminisms and Performance Studies
KERRIE SCHAEFER and LAURA GINTERS
Performance Studies: a Tour Through the Field
JONATHAN BOLLEN
Discourses of an ‘International’ Disciplinary F ormation: Australian and International Performance Studies Conference Diaries 1991-2001
RACHAEL FENSHAM
Discussing Theory-Practice Relationships in Performance: a Round-Table Discussion with Annette Tesoriero, Tess de Quincey,Deborah Pollard, John Baylis, David Pledger, Josephine Wilson
PETER ECKERSALL
Reviews
HELEN THOMSON, Meat Party by Duong Le Quy
DENISE VARNEY, Life After George by Hannie Rayson
BARBARA JOSEPH, Sweet Road by Deborah Oswald
GEOFFREY MILNE, Melbourne Stories: Three Plays: Who’s Afraid of the Working Class? by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves, Christos Tsiolkas and Irine Vela; Polly Blue by Belinda Bradley; Features of Blown Youthby Raimondo Cortese
TOM BURVILL, The Chekhov Theatre: A Century of the Plays in Performance by Laurence Senelick
REBECCA PELAN, The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel by Nicholas Grene
JACQUELINE LO, The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization by Rustom Bharucha
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