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Authors: De Silva, Daswin , Burstein, Frada , Stranieri, Andrew , Williams, Katrina , Rinehart, Nicole
Date: 2013
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Information systems: Transforming the future 24th Australasian Conference on Information p. 2-11
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Authors: Bourne, Tracy
Date: 2007
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: ASDA, Melbourne 2007
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Description: Music theatre is a form struggling for definition. A musician will tell you that music theatre is new opera,while an actor will tell you that music theatre is a musical. Good music theatre should be both musically and theatrically satisfying. It should broaden the boundaries of performance and take a work beyond the limitations of one form into a more complete and expressive experience. Myth and metaphor are well suited to music theatre form, but the small story can work well too. This paper will use the process of writing and performing a ‘true story’ to argue for the relevance of music theatre in dealing with the emotional content of smaller works. ‘Running with pigs …’1 was written as a response to my own experience of pregnancy, birth and stillbirth. Music theatre form allowed us to engage with the personal nature of the material with humour and with sadness, and gave us the flexibility to enter the surreal, inner world of pregnancy and grief. In this performance, music theatre was not an escape from real life, but a way of giving space and structure to real feelings within the story.

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