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                                                                 BOOK
ANNOUNCEMENT
 
                                                                       
                                                              
PERFORMING AOTEAROA 
                                                                       
                    NEW ZEALAND THEATRE AND DRAMA IN AN AGE OF
TRANSITION
 
                                                                       
                                                    Marc Maufort and
David O’Donnell, eds. 
 
 
Over the last three decades of the twentieth century, theatre and drama
in Aotearoa/New Zealand have experienced remarkable growth. This
groundbreaking anthology of essays and interviews attempts to document
the diversity of these multiple dramatic voices and performative
dimensions, as they reflect the evolving New Zealand identity in an age
of transition moving towards twenty-first century globalization. This
comprehensive volume comprises a wide range of chapters focusing on key
figures in the development of New Zealand theatre and drama, such as,
among others, Robert Lord, Ken Duncum, Gary Henderson, Stephen Sinclair,
Hone Kouka, Briar-Grace Smith, Jacob Rajan, Lynda Chanwai-Earle,
Nathaniel Lees, and Victor Rodger.

It is hoped that this volume will shed light on a hitherto neglected
field of the canon of English-language drama. By extension, the issues
discussed in this anthology will provide new vistas from which to study
the postcolonial condition in the wider context of the contemporary
Commonwealth.
 
Contents: 
Marc Maufort: Performing Aotearoa in an Age of Transition - David
O'Donnell: «Whaddarya?» Questioning National Identity in New Zealand
Drama - Christopher Balme: Staging Pan-Polynesian identity at the New
Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch 1906-07 - Murray Edmond:
Re-membering the Remembering Body: «Autonomous Theatre» in New Zealand -
Bronwyn Tweddle: Where Grotowski Meets Lecoq. «Flow» in Training at Toi
Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School - Susan Williams: Advocating
Interaction with «the Other»: Robert Lord's Use of the Food Metaphor -
William Peterson: Writing into the Land: Dramatic Monologues in the
Expanding Landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand - Marc Maufort: Painful
Homecomings: Family Fractures in Contemporary Pakeha Dramaturgies -
Telling Pakeha stories. Lisa Warrington Interviews Gary Henderson -
«Theatre is the lightning rod». David O'Donnell Interviews Ken Duncum
- Stuart Young: Masque(e)rades of Masculinity: Cross-Dressing Women on
the New Zealand Stage - Completing the Circle. David O'Donnell
Interviews Jean Betts - Te Ahukaramu Charles Royal: Orotokare. Towards a
New Model for Indigenous Theatre and Performing Arts - «Let me feel the
magic». Hilary Halba Interviews Rangimoana Taylor - David Carnegie/David
O'Donnell: Maori Dramaturgy: The Case of Nga Tangata Toa - Hone Kouka:
Re-Colonising the Natives: The State of Contemporary Maori Theatre -
Marc Maufort: Recapturing Maori Spirituality: Briar Grace-Smith's Magic
Realist Stage Aesthetic - Calming the Oceans. David O'Donnell Interviews
Briar Grace-Smith - Sharon Mazer: Atamira Dance Collective: Dancing in
the Footsteps of the Ancestors - Peter Falkenberg: Theatre of Unease -
David O'Donnell: Re-claiming the «Fob»: The Immigrant Family in Samoan
Drama - «Everything is family». David O'Donnell Interviews Nathaniel
Lees - Lisa Warrington: A Place to Tell Our Stories: Asian Voices in the
Theatre of Aotearoa - «Truth is always stranger than fiction». David
O'Donnell Interviews Lynda Chanwai-Earle - «We want to create work
that's beautiful, funny, sad and true». Lisa Warrington Interviews Jacob
Rajan - John Davies: The Audience Are Stones - William Farrimond: Mask,
Moko and Memory: Identity through Solo Performance in a Post-colonial
World - Trisha Dunleavy: Narratives of Identity: TV Drama Production in
New Zealand.
 
The Editors: 
Marc Maufort is a professor of English-language literatures and drama
at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He has published
numerous essays and edited several books on contemporary American and
postcolonial drama. His most recent monograph, Transgressive
Itineraries: Postcolonial Hybridizations of Dramatic Realism (P.I.E.
Peter Lang, 2003), offers a comparative study of contemporary Canadian,
Australian, and New Zealand drama.

David O'Donnell, a graduate of the University of Otago and Toi
Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, is a senior lecturer in theatre at
Victoria University of Wellington. He has published extensively on New
Zealand and Pacific drama and is also an award-winning director whose
productions include several premieres of recent New Zealand plays.
 
Practical information:
Brussels: PIE-PETER LANG, 2007, 463 pp., 16 ill.
ISBN 978-90-5201-359-6 (pb)
40.90 EUR, 26.60 GBP, 52.95 USD
Copies can be purchased on line at www.peterlang.com.

 
 
 
Prof. Marc Maufort
Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures CP 175
Université Libre de Bruxelles
50, av. F.D. Roosevelt
1050 BRUXELLES
BELGIUM
Tel.: ++32- (0)2-426-04-37
E-mail: mmaufort at ulb.ac.be
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