Program

The Enter the New Wave Symposium will run from Wednesday 26th September to Friday 28th September.

Early Registration will commence 5.30pm Wednesday 26th September in the Grand Buffet Hall, Union House.

Registration will commence 8.30am Thursday 27th September and 9am Friday 28th September in the foyer of the Arts Centre Building, corner of Swanston and Grattan St.

Below is a draft program, please check this site regularly for updates.

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Day 1- Thursday 27th September

8.30 Foyer – Registration

9.30 Open Stage – White With Wire Wheels: Then and Now – Chair: Angela O’Brien
Jack Hibberd, Sue Ingleton, David Kendall, Susie Dee
White with Wire Wheels productions 1967 and 2007
Informal presentations and panel discussion

11.00 Foyer – Morning tea

11.30 Open Stage – Enter the New Wave: Melbourne – Chair: James McCaughey
Graeme Blundell, Bill Garner, Betty Burstall, Liz Jones
The University of Melbourne – La Mama – APG – The Pram Factory

Informal presentations and panel discussion

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Open Stage – A Stretch-ed Imagination – Chair: Paul Monaghan
Max Gillies, Laurence Strangio & Matt Delbridge
Jack Hibberd’s A Stretch of the Imagination

Performance excerpts and discussion –
Gillies: My Life with Monk O’Neill
Strangio: STRETCH x 2: Jack Hibberd's "A Stretch of the Imagination" (episodes from a recreation-in-progress) [v.2.0]'

3.30 Foyer – Afternoon tea

4.00 Open Stage – Aspects of the New Wave:The Human Body (Sydney), APG (Melbourne), New Theatre and Peter King (1989) – Chair: Aubrey Mellor
Angela O’Brien, Tom Considine, Gabrielle Wolf
Particular 'New Wave' artists and groups

Academic papers -
O’Brien: Mona Brand – ‘Onstage Vietnam’
Considine: Aspects of the New Wave 1967-1970
Wolf: Make it Australian

5.30 Foyer – Drinks

5.45 Open Stage – Play Reading : Norm and Ahmed by Alex Buzo
Director: Max Gillies
Cast: Tom Considine, Anupam Rao

7.00 Finish

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Day 2 – Friday 28th September

9.00 Foyer – Registration

9.30 Open Stage – Enter the New Wave: Sydney – Chair: Julian Meyrick
Ian Maxwell, Adrian Guthrie
The Sydney beginnings of the New Wave

Academic papers -
Maxwell: A Withering Mistletoe on our gum-tree culture
Guthrie: Melbourne meets Sydney; response

11.00 Foyer – Morning tea

11.30 Open Stage – Revisions to the story – Chair: Kate Donelan
Christine Comans, Jodi Gallagher & Maryrose Casey, Alison Richards
Critiquing the celebration

Academic papers -
Comans: Brisbane’s La Boite and the New Wave
Gallagher and Casey: Lygon Street Limbo
Richards: Your History

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Open Stage – Dorothy Hewett
Jasna Novakovic, Suzanne Chaundy, Aubrey Mellor – Chair: Paul Monaghan
Dorothy Hewett and the New Wave

Academic paper- Novakovic: Jack Hibberd, The Chapel Perilous and the Mythic Paradigm of Fertility
Performance excerpts from The Chapel Perilous directed by Suzanne Chaundy,
Mellor: The Director’s Dilemma - the living, local playwright; panel discussion

3.30 Foyer – Afternoon tea

4.00 Open Stage – John Romeril: ‘still here’ – Chair: John McCallum
Denise Varney, John Romeril
John Romeril in context

Academic paper - Varney: Political lessons of the New Wave: socially committed theatre
Romeril: I entered LaMama a poet - Left it a playwright

5.10 Foyer – Break

5.15 Open Stage Play Reading : Chicago Chicago by John Romeril
Director: Richard Murphet; Cast: VCA Drama students

6.15 Open Stage – Wrap up session – Chair: AngelaO'Brien, Susie Dee

6.30 Foyer – Drinks

7.30 Informal dinner

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For details on presenters and presentations see Abstracts & Bios

All participants must register to attend the conference.

For more information please email: nw-symposium@unimelb.edu.au