TY - JOUR
T1 - Sidetrack
T2 - Discovering the Theatricality of Community
AU - Burvill, Tom
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - In the interview above, Malcolm Blaylock referred to Sidetrack, a community theatre company in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, as ‘arguably the best company in Australia’. Here, Tom Burvill examines some of the company's recent work, and sets it in the context of an understanding of community theatre which he traces back to Brecht and Walter Benjamin. Tom Burvill, who has himself acted as a dramaturg for Sidetrack, lectures in English and linguistics at Macquarie University.
AB - In the interview above, Malcolm Blaylock referred to Sidetrack, a community theatre company in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, as ‘arguably the best company in Australia’. Here, Tom Burvill examines some of the company's recent work, and sets it in the context of an understanding of community theatre which he traces back to Brecht and Walter Benjamin. Tom Burvill, who has himself acted as a dramaturg for Sidetrack, lectures in English and linguistics at Macquarie University.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84974151635&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0266464X00001949
DO - 10.1017/S0266464X00001949
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84974151635
SN - 0266-464X
VL - 2
SP - 80
EP - 89
JO - New Theatre Quarterly
JF - New Theatre Quarterly
IS - 5
ER -