Publisher's Synopsis
The huge research into the history of Australian theatre assembled in Currency's authoritative Companion to Theatre in Australia has here been concentrated into a handy reference guide for the theatre lover and student. Every aspect of theatre is still covered: old traditions and new forms; major performers, directors and playwrights and designers; theatre buildings, management, stage effects, industrial relations, criticism; drama, musicals, circus, puppetry and vaudeville. Forty new artists have been added and new material to provide an up-to-date reference to the end of the 1990s.
