Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea)
Andrew Bovell's play, Holy Day (The Red Sea), takes part in Australia's 'history wars,' the ongoing argument concerning the proper relationship between the country's past and its present, particularly regarding the dispossession of the Aborigines and other injustices. While...
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| description | Andrew Bovell's play, Holy Day (The Red Sea), takes part in Australia's 'history wars,' the ongoing argument concerning the proper relationship between the country's past and its present, particularly regarding the dispossession of the Aborigines and other injustices. While conservatives insist that history is past and we are better served by contemplating the future, others assert that properly moving forward involves a careful consideration of what needs to occur to remedy the injuries of our past. Part of the latter group's case is that the past is ever with us, that then cannot be conveniently annexed from now. Holy Day (The Red Sea) demonstrates this by weaving the present into its depiction of the past. How it does so is the business of this paper. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-274312017-02-27T14:48:10Z Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) Pulford, Donald Aboriginal dispossession Holy Day (The Red Sea) History wars Colonial frontier Andrew Bovell Plays Australian theatre Andrew Bovell's play, Holy Day (The Red Sea), takes part in Australia's 'history wars,' the ongoing argument concerning the proper relationship between the country's past and its present, particularly regarding the dispossession of the Aborigines and other injustices. While conservatives insist that history is past and we are better served by contemplating the future, others assert that properly moving forward involves a careful consideration of what needs to occur to remedy the injuries of our past. Part of the latter group's case is that the past is ever with us, that then cannot be conveniently annexed from now. Holy Day (The Red Sea) demonstrates this by weaving the present into its depiction of the past. How it does so is the business of this paper. 2006 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27431 http://www.wvttrier.de/ Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Aboriginal dispossession Holy Day (The Red Sea) History wars Colonial frontier Andrew Bovell Plays Australian theatre Pulford, Donald Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title | Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title_full | Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title_fullStr | Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title_short | Staging past and present simultaneously: Andrew Bovell's Holy Day (The Red Sea) |
| title_sort | staging past and present simultaneously: andrew bovell's holy day (the red sea) |
| topic | Aboriginal dispossession Holy Day (The Red Sea) History wars Colonial frontier Andrew Bovell Plays Australian theatre |
| url | http://www.wvttrier.de/ http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27431 |