The Broadway hit offered an escape from the anxieties of World War II. But the America it portrayed – unified, patriotic and white – rings hollow today.
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A new form of ticketing is becoming more popular in the arts – and it might help us be more charitable than before.
The stage is the perfect place to explore dark thoughts.
To the recently deceased playwright, the nation’s greatest tragedy was its move from an agricultural society to an urban, industrial one.
No other Australian playwright has mined their own life as much as Dorothy Hewett. In this expressionist drama, she depicts a girl of yearning heart, looking for love and hungry for life.
The plays of Alex Buzo captured the spirit of rebellion of a new generation of theatre artists.
In 1955 two plays – The Torrents and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll – burst into Australian theatre. Funny and tragic in deeply Australian ways, they marked a new horizon of creative possibility.
The best Australian play ever written is revolutionary in its treatment of plot, character and language. It has a weary, sardonic perspective on war and an unheroic worldview.
For over four centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have been picked apart and reimagined.
Attributing a Shakespeare work to another writer attracts plenty of critics. But an attribution specialist says his team’s decision to name Christopher Marlowe as a co-author is based on state of the art research.
There is more than one hand at play behind some of Shakespeare’s work, but it’s not necessarily Marlowe’s.
Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by apartheid.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Literary Theory, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of South Wales
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Dean's Professor of English and Professor of Theatre, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of English, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor of English, Bridgewater State University
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Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting and Media Production, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Cardiff University
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor of American Studies, Brandeis University
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PhD candidate, Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor in Theatre Studies, Department of Culture & Aesthetics, Stockholm University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney