It’s been seven years since Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to Indigenous Australians. On Australia’s stages dramatists continue to explore the ramifications of that apology and colonial history.
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Playwriting occupies a weak position in Australian culture because its historical role is not to be “good”, but to be socially acceptable. We need now to take a modern attitude to drama.
Drama involves an altered representation of reality – and the way we understand both the representations and the reality evolve. Duncan Graham’s recent play Cut shows how significantly those understandings change.
Many of the scholarly observations made about plays – who wrote them, when and why, their history, their canonical status, or not – are irrelevant. Audiences do not need to know such things.
Sociologist Max Weber once called politics “the slow boring of hard boards”. If he had been in the arts he might have added, “using your head as a drill”. Australia’s cultural agenda often feels like an…
Around 89,960. That’s the number of meals we can expect to eat if we live to the age of 82. Take an average of men and women’s life expectancies (79.9 + 84.3 ÷ 2), x 3 meals a day, x 365 days a year…
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University
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Researcher, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Associate Head Learning and Teaching, Senior Lecturer Theatre and Performance, University of Tasmania
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Indigenous Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne
