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dc.contributor.authorLever, Susanen
dc.contributor.authorPender, Anneen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Anner Pender and Susan Leveren
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-18T16:58:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationNick Enright: An Actor's Playwright, p. 173-184en
dc.identifier.isbn9789042024601en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2245-
dc.description.abstractNick Enright's musical, written with Terence Clarke, honours the musical styles and experiences of a previous Australian generation. This chapter explores the ironic, parodic way that it creates the Australian musical that never existed, a generation after it should have. Australian audiences of the 1940s and 1950s loved the Hollywood musical, and the great American Broadway musical s of the period. It was also a time when the old vaudeville troupes that travelled outback Australia were dying. The songs in Summer Rain deliberately reference both Hollywood and Australian traditions, lightly parodying them in 'Watch the Puddles', or improving them in 'The Casuarina Tree'. At the same time, Enright's musical presents a more modest and laconic Australian attitude that is tongue-in-cheek, and always light-hearted. This story of renewal, forgiveness and recovery after war and drought retrospectively promises a better future for the post-war generation. This chapter analyses some of the patterns of parody and allusion in the play, while arguing that its detailed reference to the language and history of the period prevents it from becoming mere pastiche, and that its humour undercuts its sentimentality.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRodopi Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofNick Enright: An Actor's Playwrighten
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAustralian playwrightsen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.title'Summer Rain': Sweet Nostalgiaen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsDrama, Theatre and Performance Studiesen
local.contributor.firstnameSusanen
local.contributor.firstnameAnneen
local.subject.for2008190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studiesen
local.subject.seo2008950105 The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance)en
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086391261en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjpender@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:6815en
local.publisher.placeAmsterdam, Netherlandsen
local.identifier.totalchapters15en
local.format.startpage173en
local.format.endpage184en
local.series.number12en
local.title.subtitleSweet Nostalgiaen
local.contributor.lastnameLeveren
local.contributor.lastnamePenderen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jpenderen
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.profile.roleauthoren
local.identifier.unepublicationidune:2317en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitle'Summer Rain'en
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an43553881en
local.relation.urlhttp://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=AP+12en
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=7zaev0q4BA4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=&f=falseen
local.search.authorLever, Susanen
local.search.authorPender, Anneen
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local.year.published2008en
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