{"product_id":"playing-australia-9789042008175","title":"Playing Australia","description":"\u003ci\u003ePlaying Australia\u003c\/i\u003e explores the insights and challenges that Australian theatre can offer the international theatre community. Collectively, the essays in this book ask what Australian drama is, has been, and might be, both to Australians and non-Australians, when it is performed in national and international arenas. \u003ci\u003ePlaying Australia\u003c\/i\u003e ranges widely in its discussions and includes analysis of Australian practitioners playing away from home; playing with Australian stereotypes; and the relationship between play, culture, politics and national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\nTopics addressed in this diverse collection include: whiteness, otherness and negotiations of Aboriginal and Asian identities; Australian school and college drama; the discourse of Australian professional theatre magazines: Aboriginal Shakespeare; Australian drama and Australian cricket; the marketing of Australianness in Germany; the international successes of \u003ci\u003eTap Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/i\u003e. New histories of Australian theatre are offered and practitioners whose careers are reconsidered in detail include high wire-walker Ella Zuila, playwright May Holt, suffrage worker and playwright Inez Bensusan, classicist Gilbert Murray, and commercial playwright Haddon Chambers.\u003cbr\u003e\nWith contributions from authors as diverse as \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e theatre critic Michael Billington and leading post-colonial critic Helen Gilbert, and interview discussion with Cate Blanchett and \u003ci\u003eTap Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e producer Wayne Harrison, \u003ci\u003ePlaying Australia\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to pay tribute to the complexities of Australian theatre experiences, to reassess Australian theatre as a significant force in the international arena and to challenge traditional thinking on what Australian theatre can be.","brand":"Elizabeth Schafer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310711484667,"sku":"9789042008175","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9789042008175.jpg?v=1772491601","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/playing-australia-9789042008175","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}