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    Joel Schechter ed., Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook
    VARNEY, DJ (Australasian Drama Studies Association, 2004)
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    Towards an expanded dramaturgical practice: A report on 'The Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project'
    Eckersall, P (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2006-10)
    This essay is a report on the Dramaturgy and Cultural Intervention Project (Dramaturgies), a forum for the investigation of issues in professional dramaturgical practice in Australia. It reviews the textual orientation of historical theatre practice in Australia before describing a series of events aiming to promote a wider and more culturally interactive understanding of dramaturgy. New forms of dramaturgy arising in response to the post-dramatic turn in theatre are discussed as a basis for exploring an expanded dramaturgical practice. Proposals for a politics of dramaturgy that revive theatre as a forum for social critique conclude the essay. While specific to one set of theatre interventions, it is intended that the proposals discussed herein have wider applications.
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    Theatrical collaboration in the age of globalization
    ECKERSALL, PETER ALEXANDER (RoutledgeCurzon, 2005)
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    From liminality to ideology: the politics of embodiment in prewar avant-garde theatre in Japan
    ECKERSALL, PETER (The University of Michigan Press, 2006)
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    "White out: theatre as an agent of border patrol"
    VARNEY, DJ (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
    In Australia in 2001, there was a marked escalation of debates about nation, national identity and national borders in tandem with a right-wing turn in national politics. Within the cultural context of debate about national identity, popular theatre became an unwitting ally of neo-conservative forces. Within popular theatre culture, the neo-conservative trend is naturalized as the view of the Anglo-Celtic-European mainstream or core culture that also embraces and depoliticizes feminist debates about home and family. Elizabeth Coleman's 2001 play This Way Up assists in the production of an inward-looking turn in the national imaginary and a renewed emphasis on home and family. The performance dramatizes aspects of what we are to understand as ordinary Australian life which might be interpreted as that which Prime Minister John Howard defends in the name of the National Interest. The cultural imaginary that shapes the production of the popular play is that of the conservative white national imaginary.
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    On Physical Theatre: A Roundtable Discussion from 'Not Yet it's Difficult' with Peter Eckersall, Paul Jackson, David Pledger, Greg Ulfan
    ECKERSALL, PA (Australian Drama Studies Centre, 2003)
    Established in 1995, the Not Yet It’s Difficult performance group (NYID) has developed a range of innovative performance techniques and styles that relate to the visceral and intensive use of bodies in performance. The interactive presence of media and design - often in non-traditional theatre spaces - and a blending of dramaturgical strategies that draw widely from sources that include theatre, popular culture, interviews, history, and media are other characteristics of their work.