Dorothy Hewett’s Drama, Memory and Australian Theatre

Peter Beaglehole (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

207 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68201-6 (ISBN)

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This book narrates the lives of Dorothy Hewett’s plays. By exploring their production in and across time, it shows distortions in the memory of her drama, and ways to re-imagine them. Their production also uncovers preoccupations in Australian Theatre.

When Dorothy Hewett joked about needing a face-lift and sex-change to improve her standing, she drew attention to forces that shaped the production and reception of her drama. Drawing on production of her plays over four decades, and interviews with Hewett’s collaborators, this book reveals how cultural memories in theatre solidify and dissolve.

Viewing theatre production as a mode of remembrance, Beaglehole grapples with Hewett as a divisive figure who was ahead of a conservative Australia. Revisiting frequently produced plays, including chapters on The Man from Mukinupin and The Chapel Perilous, as well as rarely-produced works, including Nowhere and The Tatty Hollow Story, this book articulates the ongoing relevance of Hewett’s drama to the history of theatre in Australia.

Peter Beaglehole writes performance work. Calendar Days won the Jill Blewett Playwright’s Award and was developed in Vitalstatistix's Adhocracy. His play Strata is published by PlayLab Press. He completed a PhD in 2019 at Flinders University of South Australia.

Foreword

Preface: Notes on Sources

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Dorothy Hewett and Her Drama

1 The Hewett Legend and Cultural Memory in Australian Theatre

2 Revisiting Redfern—This Old Man Comes Rolling Home

3 Controversy and The Chapel Perilous

4 The Tatty Hollow Story and the Irreconcilable in Remembering Dorothy Hewett

5 Visions of The Man from Mukinupin

6 The Jarrabin Trilogy—An End to Hewett’s New Writing?

7 Hewett’s Reprise—Nowhere

Conclusion: Remembering Dorothy Hewett and Her Drama by Narrating the Lives of Plays

Appendix: 1920–2019 Timeline, Including Hewett’s Life and Works

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Australian Playwrights ; 19
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	495 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-68201-5 / 9004682015
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68201-6 / 9789004682016
Zustand	Neuware