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Theatre and Australia

By: Julian Meyrick

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How has Australia developed, culturally? What is the relationship between European theatre and Aboriginal performance? How do the concepts of memory, space, and love intersect and inform all Australian drama? Theatre and Australia is a stark look at the signal contradictions that make up the nation's sense of self. Exploring how race, gender, and community have influenced Australia's cultural development, this book reveals the history of Australian theatre as a tussle with questions of identity that can neither be entirely repudiated nor fully resolved. This concise study traverses the narrative of Australian theatre since white settlement, examining some of the main plays and performances of the last 230 years, and illuminating the relationship between European, non-Indigenous, and First Nations drama.

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1350331384

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Theatre and Australia

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Australian Theatre after the New Wave

Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist

By: Julian Meyrick

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Australian Theatre after the New Wave

Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist

By: Julian Meyrick

In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in 1975, these ‘alternative’ theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of ‘accountability’, and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation’s theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today. “This is an exceptionally timely book... In giving a history of Australian independent theatre it not only charts the amazing rise and strange disappearance of an energetic, radical and dynamically democratic artistic movement, but also tries to explain that rise and fall, and how we should relate to it now.” — Prof. Justin O’Connor, Monash University “This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Australian theatre and, more broadly... to the global discussion about the vexed relationship between artists, creativity, government funding for the arts and cultural policy.” — Dr. Gillian Arrighi, The University of Newcastle, Australia

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BRILL

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9004339892

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9789004339897

A Sea of Gold

Thomas Kydd 21

By: Julian Stockwin

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A Sea of Gold

Thomas Kydd 21

By: Julian Stockwin

Tension surges through A Sea of Gold . . . In this rousing yarn, Stockwin again raises naval fiction to a new level' - Quarterdeck 'Stockwin has surpassed himself with A Sea of Gold . . . a fine, filly favoured vintage yarn' - Warships 1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position. The Admiralty orders Cochrane to command an attack, to the chagrin of more senior officers who object to being overlooked and Cochrane's reputation for daring. Cochrane insists that his new friend, Kydd, is in the forefront of the assault armada, a motley collection of rocket, bomb and fire ships that will set the anchorage ablaze - this despite Kydd's almost pathological fear of fire. The fallout from what follows will see Kydd financially ruined, with only his former shipmates, his oldest friend of all, Nicholas Renzi, and the whisper of hidden Spanish treasure promising the sea of gold that he needs to save himself. ******************** Praise for Julian Stockwin's Kydd series 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' - Guardian 'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' Daily Express 'This heady adventure blends fact and fiction in rich, authoritative detail' Nautical Magazine 'Fans of fast-paced adventure will get their fill with this book' Historical Naval Society

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334

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1473641063

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9781473641068

Pembrokeshire

By: Thomas Lloyd,Julian Orbach,Robert Scourfield,Richard Scourfield

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Pembrokeshire

By: Thomas Lloyd,Julian Orbach,Robert Scourfield,Richard Scourfield

This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from the rugged prehistoric remains that stud the distinctive windswept landscape overlooking the Atlantic to distinguished recent buildings that respond imaginatively to their natural setting. The comprehensive gazetteer encompasses the great cathedral of St David's and its Bishop's Palace, the numerous churches, and the magnificent Norman castles that reflect the turbulent medieval past. It gives attention also to the lesser-known delights of Welsh chapels--both simple rural and sophisticated Victorian examples--in all their wayward variety and provides detailed accounts of a rewarding range of towns, including the county town, Haverfordwest, the attractively unspoilt Regency resort of Tenby, and Milford Haven and Pembroke Dock, with their important naval history. An introduction with valuable specialist contributions sets the buildings in context.

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Yale University Press

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0300101783

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9780300101782

The Wesleys

By: Julian Wilson

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The Wesleys

By: Julian Wilson

Two Men Who Changed The World John and Charles Wesley are, undoubtedly, two of the greatest heroes of the Christian faith who have ever lived. Their fearless preaching in the face of violent opposition and the rise of the Methodist movement powerfully influenced an eighteenth century England that was rife with corruption, drunkenness, crime and religious apathy; a country described by Bishop John Ryle a century later as "...barren of all good. There was a gross religious and moral darkness; a darkness that might be felt." In this most comprehensive biography of John and Charles Wesley to date, best-selling author, Julian Wilson describes in vivid detail the brothers' triumphs and failures, their conversion to true Christianity, their differing characters, their relationships with women, their prison outreach, their uncompromising preaching even when faced with death or serious injury, the growth of the Methodist movement and in John's case, his supernatural ministry, his work as a physician, his involvement in the abolition of slavery and his educational and social welfare initiatives. John and Charles Wesley may have lived in the eighteenth century, but their message and their ministry are as vital and relevant today as they were more than two hundred years ago.

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387

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Authentic Media Inc

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1780782403

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9781780782409

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

By: Thomas Lloyd,Julian Orbach,Robert Scourfield

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Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

By: Thomas Lloyd,Julian Orbach,Robert Scourfield

This sixth volume of the Buildings of Wales series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the south-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known, hut encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. The Buildings of Wales, founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), will, when complete, document and describe the architecture of the Principality in seven regional volumes, complementing the sister series on England, Ireland and Scotland. In each one a gazetteer details all buildings of significance from megalithic tombs and Iron Age hill-forts, via grand seventeenth-century houses to Victorian domestic extravaganzas, great industrial centres and monumental public buildings. The countryside is explored to reveal churches, chapels, farmhouses, and traces of early industry. The gazetteer is complemented by an introduction which explains the broader context and builds a complete picture of the country's architectural identity. Each work is illustrated by numerous maps, plans and photographs, completed by glossaries and indexes, and gives a comprehensive and illuminating survey of the buildings of Wales.

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Yale University Press

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0300101791

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9780300101799

Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Being English

Narratives, Idioms, and Performances of National Identity from Coleridge to Trollope

By: Julian Wolfreys

Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves, using texts by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Arnold, Gaskell, Collins, Eliot, and Trollope.

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State University of New York Press

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1438424337

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The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida

By: Julian Wolfreys

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The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

Dissonant Identities from Carroll to Derrida

By: Julian Wolfreys

In this wide-ranging, challenging theoretical study, Julian Wolfreys offers close readings of films, novels and poetry in order to draw attention to the ways in which texts resist acts of reading by performing their own idiomatic, wayward identities. Looking at the construction of identity in Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Maya Deren, Sylvie Germain, Jacques Derrida, Michel Deguy, and George Eliot, Wolfreys asks the reader to reassess the textual performance of identity by attending to a rhetoric which is simultaneously both resistant to mastery and affirmative of dissonance.

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Springer

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1349256994

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Warfare in Prehistoric Britain

By: Julian Heath

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Warfare in Prehistoric Britain

By: Julian Heath

Warfare in Prehistoric Britain explores the dark shadow of war which has hung over humanity for centuries

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144561992X

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Occasional Deconstructions

By: Julian Wolfreys

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Occasional Deconstructions

By: Julian Wolfreys

In Occasional Deconstructions, Julian Wolfreys challenges the notion that deconstruction is a critical methodology, offering instead a number of reintroductions or reorientations to the texts of Jacques Derrida and the idea or possibility of deconstructions. Proceeding from specific readings of various texts (both film and literary), as well as mobilizing a number of issues from Derrida's recent work surrounding questions of ethics, politics, and identity, Wolfreys considers the role of deconstruction in broader academic and institutional contexts, and questions whether, in fact, deconstruction can be called upon to function as theory at all. In this book, Wolfreys suggests that the patient, necessary work of reading, in which response and responsibility to the other has a chance to manifest itself, is necessary to the always political and ethical tracing of the material and the historical. He also contends that reading should be an encounter that gives place to an acknowledgment of the other, and that this singular act by which one is introduced to the other can never be programmed.

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State University of New York Press

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0791484432

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See how it Runs

Nimrod and the New Wave

By: Julian Meyrick

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Nimrod and the New Wave

By: Julian Meyrick

When it burst onto the Sydney theatre scene in 1970, Nimrod was the place to be. As author Julian Meyrick observes, it had élan, pace and style. Its language was blue (on and off stage), its personnel young and good-looking, and it vibrated colour and energy. It was upbeat. It was hot. For the rest of the decade, Nimrod continued to be in the right place at the right time. It moved to a bigger building in 1974 and its output, its structure and even its funding seemed set to grow forever. This book tells the story of Nimrod from its genesis as a small company full of ideas and energy to its third bankruptcy in 1985 and the departure of its longest-serving director, John Bell. In a story told from many angles, Meyrick analyses: the theatre's repertoire and the ethos which informed it; the public face of the company and the tensions behind the scenes; the changing role of government subvention over the period; why the theatre became overburdened by its own administration; the contrasting approaches of different generations of theatre professionals; the effect of Nimrod's competitors -- especially the demise of the Old Tote and the rise of the Sydney Theatre Company -- on its own position; and the company's revenue and expenditure profile.

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0868196517

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9780868196510

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

By: Julian Bedford

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The World Atlas of Horse Racing

By: Julian Bedford

Filled with photographs of famous races, here is an overview of the sport that is chock-full of information: tracks, horses, famous races and racers. A stunning portrayal of The Sport of Kings.

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BDD Promotional Books Company

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0792450183

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9780792450184

Australian Theatre After the New Wave

Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist

By: Julian Meyrick

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Australian Theatre After the New Wave

Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist

By: Julian Meyrick

Australian Theatre after the New Wave charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94), analysing the growing dominance of government in shaping the nation's theatre.

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Brill / Rodopi

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9004339884

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9789004339880

Angela's Kitchen

By: Paul Capsis,Julian Meyrick,Hilary Bell

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Angela's Kitchen

By: Paul Capsis,Julian Meyrick,Hilary Bell

In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind. Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a bright new life. If only she could first learn the language, finish shoring up their dilapidated house, find new friends, get the racist neighbour off her back and keep her son away from sly grog queen Kate Leigh's kids. Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey. Making his way along Kalkara's glistening harbourside, a young man with flowing black hair has returned to claim his past. Paul Capsis is walking home. A journey that begins at a kitchen table becomes a sprawling family history and a fitting tribute to a much-loved matriarch. (1 male or 1 female).

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Book's by Julian Meyrick

Theatre and Australia

Theatre and Australia

Theatre and Australia

Theatre and Australia

Australian Theatre after the New Wave

Australian Theatre after the New Wave

A Sea of Gold

A Sea of Gold

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire

The Wesleys

The Wesleys

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion

Being English

Being English

The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

The Rhetoric of Affirmative Resistance

Warfare in Prehistoric Britain

Warfare in Prehistoric Britain

Occasional Deconstructions

Occasional Deconstructions

See how it Runs

See how it Runs

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

The World Atlas of Horse Racing

Australian Theatre After the New Wave

Australian Theatre After the New Wave

Angela's Kitchen

Angela's Kitchen

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