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.
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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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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting and Media Production, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Professor of English, Bridgewater State University
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Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
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Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of South Wales
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