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dc.contributor.authorPulford, Donald
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:48:34Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:48:34Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:25:26Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.identifier.citationPulford, Donald. 2000. America and the Australian performing group. Antipodes. 14 (2): pp. 111-114.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15214
dc.description.abstract

The development of a distinctively Australian theater is commonly traced to two companies that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Australian Performing Group (APG) in Melbourne and the Nimrod in Sydney. The work of both companies is remembered for its determined populism, physicality, and transgressive vulgarity. While these qualities were not necessarily new to Australian theater, the Nimrod and the APG allied them to a theatrical nationalism that won acceptance at the time and has influenced interpretations of their work since then. Populism, physicality, and vulgarity became the hallmarks of what was read at the time and has continued to be read as a characteristically Australian performance style. Both companies were also crucial in attempting to reverse a cultural cringe that led Australian theater companies to be suspicious of local products and to imitate or import the foreign. The Nimrod and the APG developed a cluster of influential writers whose subjects and style were drawn from Australia and who won acceptance for indigenous theater.

dc.subjectAustralian theatre companies
dc.subjectPopulism
dc.subjectNimrod
dc.subjectIndigenous theatre
dc.subjectAustralian Performing Group (APG)
dc.subjectCultural cringe
dc.subjectTheatrical nationalism
dc.subjectAustralian theatre
dc.titleAmerica and the Australian performing group
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume14
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.monthdec
dcterms.source.startPage111
dcterms.source.endPage114
dcterms.source.titleAntipodes
dcterms.source.conferenceAustralian Literary Studies in the 21st Century: 2000 ASAL Conference
dcterms.source.conference-start-date6-9 July, 2000
dcterms.source.conferencelocationUniversity of Tasmania, Hobart
dcterms.source.placeHobart
curtin.identifierEPR-1075
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyDivision of Humanities
curtin.facultyFaculty of Media, Society and Culture
curtin.facultyDepartment of Communication and Cultural Studies
curtin.facultyFaculty of Media, Society and Culture (MSC)


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