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ItemDramaturgies of valuing in three unpaid-led theatre-producing companies in Victoria, Australia( 2021)Unpaid-led theatre has been cast in a myriad of roles by academics, policy writers, and in popular culture. From being characterised as a vanguard of cultural change to being stigmatised for unprofessional practice, unpaid-led theatre has also been variously co-opted to make claims about value in artistic, socio-cultural, political and economic debates. Yet, how unpaid-led theatre companies in Australia practice with values and how valuing can be understood dramaturgically has not been well understood. This thesis responds to this gap and examines how values are expressed in unpaid-led theatre-producing companies in Victoria, Australia. The identification of an unpaid-led theatre provides an unusual categorical framework for considering three theatres from various lineages, including amateur, independent theatre, and professionalised community arts led by people who are unremunerated. This inquiry was made through practice-led case studies with the aim of developing empirically based dramaturgical theories. If dramaturgy is defined broadly as both a creative logic (Barba 2010) and a practice (Romanska 2014) involving the enactment of values that shape meaning, then the specific interest of this study is to scrutinise how those values are expressed in theatre company practice. To do this, dramaturgy is deployed as the mechanism for researching, and the subject and frame of analysis. Accordingly, this thesis develops three dramaturgies of valuing: The Godot Effect, Polycultural Dramaturgy and Collective Institutional Dramaturgy. Each describes and analyses valuing in unpaid-led theatre practices, and contributes the novel theoretical convergence of unpaid-led theatre, valuing and dramaturgy.