Namatjira And Ngapartji Ngapartji Two Plays

Author : Susanne Julia Thurow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682188
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage written by Susanne Julia Thurow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 50 years, Indigenous Australian theatre practice has emerged as a dynamic site for the discursive reflection of culture and tradition as well as colonial legacies, leveraging the power of storytelling to create and advocate contemporary fluid conceptions of Indigeneity. Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage offers a window into the history and diversity of this vigorous practice. It introduces the reader to cornerstones of Indigenous Australian cultural frameworks and on this backdrop discusses a wealth of plays in light of their responses to contemporary Australian identity politics. The in-depth readings of two landmark theatre productions, Scott Rankin’s Namatjira (2010) and Wesley Enoch & Anita Heiss’ I Am Eora (2012), trace the artists’ engagement with questions of community consolidation and national reconciliation, carefully considering the implications of their propositions for identity work arising from the translation of traditional ontologies into contemporary orientations. The analyses of the dramatic texts are incrementally enriched by a dense reflection of the production and reception contexts of the plays, providing an expanded framework for the critical consideration of contemporary postcolonial theatre practice that allows for a well-founded appreciation of the strengths yet also pointing to the limitations of current representative approaches on the Australian mainstage. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars of Postcolonial, Literary, Performance and Theatre Studies.

Author : Scott Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868199221
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji written by Scott Rankin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Namatjira & Ngapartji Ngapartji go right to the heart of the intersection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience. These stories of family, friendship, land, myth, life and death are contextualised within the social and political framework of their times. They resonate universally, yet at the same time capture unique moments in Australian history and experience. Namatjira -- The moving story of Albert Namatjira (1902-1959). Namatjira was Australia's most famous Indigenous, watercolour artist and the first to achieve commercial success, but his story is hardly known. Albert Namatjira's story resonates today as strongly as it did 50 years ago, providing a lens through which we can see the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians both in the past and the present. Ngapartji Ngapartji -- Taking its name from the Pitjantjatjara concept of exchange and reciprocity -- co-created with Trevor Jamieson -- this play is a deeply affecting experience of Indigenous history. Exploring themes of dispossession and displacement from country, home and family, the play tells the story of a Pitjantjatjara family forcibly moved off their lands to make way for the testing of British Atomic bombs at Maralinga. (Namatjira -- 4 male & 2 musicians; Ngapartji Ngapartji -- 10 male, 3 female & choir)

Author : Scott Rankin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780868199160
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Namatjira written by Scott Rankin and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Namatjira was a man of firsts: the first successful indigenous artist and the first indigenous man to be made an Australian citizen. At the height of his fame in the 1950s Albert Namatjira's shows sold out within minutes. If you didn't own one of his paintings you probably had a print in your lounge room. He also supported over six hundred members of his community, lost two of his ten children to malnutrition, was forbidden to own land, imprisoned for having a drink with his friends, and died a broken man. Namatjira is a whole-hearted tribute to a great man.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477412
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Drama written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Sahil Sood
Publisher : Woven Words Publishers OPC Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Dreams Within Me Softly Burn written by Sahil Sood and published by Woven Words Publishers OPC Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927083765
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Someday written by Drew Hayden Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someday is a powerful new play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor's distinctive wit and humour, is based on the real-life tragedies suffered by many Native Canadian families.Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmastime 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter is stronger than ever.When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither women are fulfilled.The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. Somedayis an entertaining, humourous, and spirited play that packs an intense emotional wallop.

Author : Anna Funder
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730376
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasiland written by Anna Funder and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Internationally hailed as a classic, it is ‘fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important’ (Tom Hanks) and ‘a heartbreaking, beautifully written book.’ (Claire Tomalin). East Germany was one of the most intrusive surveillance states of all time. One in 7 people spied on their friends, family and colleagues. In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid. She meets Miriam Weber, who was imprisoned at 16 after scaling the Berlin Wall. She drinks with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the Eastern Bloc who was ‘disappeared’. And she finds former Stasi men who defend their regime long past its demise, and yearn for the second coming of Communism. Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English in 2004. It was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards, The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing). It is read in schools and universities in many countries, and has been adapted for CD and the stage by The National Theatre, London.

Author : M.T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763662623
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feed written by M.T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains. This new edition contains new back matter and a refreshed cover. A National Book Award finalist.

Author : Jane Harrison
Publisher : Currency Press Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780868197975
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Stolen written by Jane Harrison and published by Currency Press Pty Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents, brought up in a repressive children's home and trained for domestic service and other menial jobs. This tender and moving story goes further than any previous account to bring the tragic human story of the Stolen Generations to the Australian stage.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141935774
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frogs and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes’ satire in The Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in The Poet and the Women, Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him.