Sixteen-year-old Eli Harwell knows what it means to work hard ground.On his family's rural property, there are fences to mend, animals to tend, and chores that do not wait for anyone to feel ready. But beneath the ordinary rhythms of work and family, Eli is beginning to discover another kind of ground, the hidden places where faith is tested, wounds take root, and a young man must decide what kind of person he will become.As pressures inside and outside the Harwell family b...

Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture. Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Excl...

Time to Declare tells with unflinching candour Mark Taylor's story in a fascinating and revealing autobiography. Taking block, Taylor throws new light on the highs and lows, the controversies and the triumphs of a truly remarkable sporting career. By the end of his journey, which included 104 Tests for his country, 7525 runs, and 157 catches, he stood acclaimed as the 'second most important person in the land'. At the close of Australia's century there can be no finer story of gri...

Untamed Echoes of the Darkness: 6 Spine-Chilling Short Stories by Mark TaylorUnleash the whispers that lurk beyond the veil...In a seemingly ordinary town, a darkness stirs. Whispers echo in the dead of night, hinting at ancient evils and forgotten secrets. Luke, a young man burdened by his past, and Elara, a woman with a hidden knowledge of the occult, find themselves drawn together by an unseen force. As they delve deeper into the town's chilling history,...

To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures? Theatres of Contagion responds to some of the anxieties of our current political and cultural climate by exploring theatre's status as a contagious cultural force, questioning its role in the spread or control of medical, psychological and emotional conditions and phenomena. Observing a diverse range of practices from the early modern to contemporary period, the volume considers...

Trained as an aviation mechanic in Germany in the 1910s, Buehl arrived in the United States in 1920, at a time when we were just inventing civilian uses for airplanes. Later, as a pilot, he was responsible for training thousands of fliers. His work, both in Europe and North America, directly helped to push back major frontiers, both physical and social.Buehl's work made possible the first flight into the stratosphere in an airplane, and other record-breaking events. As a co-pilot, ...

In How to Stop Worrying: Embrace a Peaceful Mindset, discover effective strategies to break free from the cycle of constant worry and cultivate a calm, resilient outlook on life. This book offers practical techniques and mindset shifts to help you let go of anxiety, manage stress, and find peace in the present moment. Drawing on insights from psychology and mindfulness practices, How to Stop Worrying provides you with tools to replace unproductive worry with a positive, solution-focused ap...

Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and performance as mediums through which politically innovative temporalities, divorced from historical processionism and the future, are inaugurated. Wickstrom is guided by three temporal concepts: the new present, the penultimate, and kairos, as developed by Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, an...

What do we mean when we describe theatre as political today? How might theatre-makers' provocations for change need to be differently designed when addressing the precarious spectator-subject of twenty- first century neoliberalism? In this important study Liz Tomlin interrogates the influential theories of Jacques Rancière to propose a new framework of analysis through which contemporary political dramaturgies can be investigated. Drawing, in particular, on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouff...

Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory.The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history, how it enacts or t...

This study explores the ways in which playtexts have evolved in relation to the sociocultural and cognitive conditions of a mediatized age, and how they, in form and content, respond to this environment and open up new critical possibilities in text and performance. The study combines theatre and media theory through the innovative concept of 'mediatized dramaturgy' and offers conceptual reflections on the ways in which a playtext negotiates the new reality of contemporary culture. The boo...

The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers an assessment of Pinter's entire body of work for the stage, appraising his skill as a dramatist and considering his impact and legacy.Through a clear focus on issues of theatricality and ...