Theatre
Seven Big Australians: Adventures with comic actors by Anne Pender
The Ripples Before the New Wave: Drama at the University Of Sydney 1957–1963 by Robyn Dalton and Laura Ginters
Dramatic Exchanges: The lives and letters of the National Theatre edited by Daniel Rosenthal
The World Only Spins Forward: The ascent of angels in America edited by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
Balancing Acts: Behind the scenes at the National Theatre by Nicholas Hytner
Dimboola's title is a great start to the play that was first performed in 1969. It belongs nowhere but in Australia. At the same time, not many people can claim to have lived there or to know someone from Dimboola. Indigenous? Maybe. And where is Dimboola? You drive through it on your way to somewhere else. It's in Victoria, out where all the roads are sign ...
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson & Great Shakespeare Actors by Stanley Wells
Hamlet belongs to the final years of Elizabeth’s reign, when the system of espionage the old queen had created through her spymaster-general, Francis Walsingham – the network of ‘watchers’, as Stephen Alford calls them in a recent brilliant study of this phenomenon – had become an acknowledged part of everyday life in England. In the theatre, these ...