Special Study of Tennessee Williams

Title: Special Study of Tennessee Williams
Creator: Hall, Ross
Date: 2005
Type: Text; Play
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59018
Identifier: vital:4415
Abstract: 'Special Study of Tennessee Williams', directed by Ross Hall, consisted of 5 live performances held at the Post Office Box Theatre, Ballarat during October 2005. The production was undertaken by 2nd Year students within the undergraduate acting program at UB and constituted in-depth research into the area of naturalistic American theatre in the wake of Stanislaski's influenct on the Group Theatre. Specifically, research focussed on two rarely performed pieces by the playwright Tennessee Williams: Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer. The work exposed the viewing public to material now, in the main, unfamiliar to contemporary Australian audiences. It also focuses perfroming students on material which is now culturally and socially foreign to them, with a special focus on performance within a Black Box mode: theatre stripped of conventional set and costume machinery, and, along with many other performance projects, constitutes part of my ongoing research with respect to theatrical representation in contemporary Australian pedagogically-based theatre.
Publisher: Play Production
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing