Australian Theatre Group

Japanese: オーストラリア演劇集団 - おーすとらりあえんげきしゅうだん
Australian Theatre Group

...This work, which exposed the pathology of mateship that is the core of the Australian ethos, caused such a stir not only in Australia but also in London, where it ran for seven months, that it could be seen as evidence that not only playwrights and those involved in the theatre, but also ordinary Australian audiences themselves, had begun to shed the tendency since the 1890s of falsely praising cultural nationalism. In the 1970s, experimental theatre companies emerged as part of counter-cultural activities, and representative examples of these were the group based at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney, and the Australian Theatre Company based at the Plum Factory (now closed), a converted baby carriage factory, and the La MaMa Theatre in Melbourne (playwrights such as J. Hibberd, B. Oakley, and D. Williamson were from here). The material used by all of them was often a scathing parody of the Australian ethos. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Australian theatre companies" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…オーストラリアのエートスの核をなすメートシップの病理をえぐり出したこの作品が,国内はもとよりロンドンで7ヵ月のロングランを続けるまでの反響を引き起こしたことは,文化ナショナリズムをいたずらにうたい上げる1890年以降の傾向を,戯曲作家や演劇関係者だけでなく,観客の一般オーストラリア人自身が脱皮し始めた証拠と見ることができる。1970年代には反体制文化活動の一環として実験的な劇団が輩出したが,その代表はシドニーではニムロッド劇場に拠るグループ,メルボルンでは乳母車工場を改造したプラム・ファクトリー(現在は閉鎖)とラ・マーマ劇場に拠るオーストラリア演劇集団(J.ヒバード,B.オークリー,D.ウィリアムソンらの戯曲作家はここの出身)である。いずれも素材は,オーストラリアのエートスを痛烈にパロディ化したものが多い。…

※「オーストラリア演劇集団」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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