Other Australian playwrights - 11AEDRA - Representational Realism

Richard Beynon

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Writer tackled bigotry (text version) The author of one of the first plays to tackle head on home-grown Australian intolerance towards its migrant population has died, aged 73. Richard Beynon, whose play The Shifting Heart shocked audiences in the 1950s with its uncompromising view of prejudice and bigotry in the suburban Australian heartland, came to be regarded as one of the first of our playwrights to articulate successfully on the stage the modern, post-war Australian experience.
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Ray Lawler, Richard Beynon, Alan Seymour (text version) In the following excerpt, originally published in 1985, Carroll provides a brief history and analysis of Australian realist drama of the 1950s before turning to a detailed discussion of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Praising it as the classic Australian example of the well-made play, Carroll remarks upon the tight connection between action and character revelation; the pattern of exposition, anticipation, and reversal; and the studied use of props and theater space.
Ray Lawler, Richard Beynon, Alan Seymour (audio version)
Fists, boots and blues Audio version available online in Gale Infotrac - Literary Sources. Go to Portal - Library - Online Databases. In the following essay, the authors survey Australian realist drama of the 1950s and 1960s. They consider the theater of this period to be an experiment in grafting emotion onto the stock symbol of the national character, the strapping Australian male—a challenging task for dramatists, given the stereotype’s inarticulacy and propensity for violence.

Alan Seymour

Tiny voice amid giants' din Reactions to a revival of his once-banned, anti-war classic have been unsettling, writes Alan Seymour

One Day of the Year by Seymour, A Undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite plays, The One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of fatherson conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day. It is a play to make us question a standard institution - Anzac Day, the sacred cow among Australian annual celebrations - but it is the likeability and genuineness of the characters that give the play its memorable qualities: Alf, the nobody who becomes a somebody on this day of days; Mum, the anchor of the family; Hughie, their son, with all the uncertainties and rebelliousness of youth; and Wacka, the Anzac, with his simple, healing wisdom.
Call Number: A822.3 SEY
ISBN: 0207133301
Publication Date: 1982

Sumner Locke Elliott

Theatre animals: Sumner Locke Elliott's invisible circus The article focuses on the formative years of Australian novelist and playwright Sumner Locke Elliott at the Independent Theatre in Sydney, New South Wales. Topics include how Australian stage actress Doris Fitton influences the work of Elliott in the theatre such as the plays "Interval" and "The Invisible Circus," the emergence of his landmark play "Rusty Bugles" due to his developed skills in playwright, and the significant of the play to the theatre history in the country.

Chasm separates American, Australian novels on gay life Life is not easy for the gay male in North America, but it is a breeze compared to life in "G'day Mate!" Australia where homophobia seems to be a national trait sometimes refined to a horrifying cruelty.

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Rusty Bugles by Elliott, S L A compassionate comedy about Australian soldiers pitted against futile boredom and heartbreak in an isolated ordinance depot. Introduced by Doris Fitton and published with a hull history of its turbulent stage career (2 acts, 17 men).
Call Number: A822 ELL
ISBN: 0868190306
Publication Date: 1980

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Ray Lawler

Summer of the seventeenth doll by Lawler, R The awakening to middle-age of two larrikin canecutters and their women (3 acts, 3 men, 4 women).
Call Number: A822.3 LAW
ISBN: 086819011X
Publication Date: 1978

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11AEDRA - Representational Realism: Other Australian playwrights