Synopses & Reviews
For many actors, painters, musicians and writers, leaving Australia seemed to be the only path to personal and professional fulfillment. Drawing on the lives of people such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Jill Neville, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James, this book explores the experience of being an expatriate in London in the creative and performing arts. It is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the relationship between Australia and Britain, as the supposed colonial backwater began to develop its own national identity.
Synopsis
A cultural history, this book explores the experience of Australian expatriates in London in the creative and performing arts.
Synopsis
Drawing on the experiences of people such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Barry Humphries and Clive James, this book explores the experience of being an expatriate in London in the creative and performing arts. It is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the relationship between Australia and Britain.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction - Going away; 2 An Australian theatre or a career on stage?; 3 Sydney or Fleet Street; 4 Musical directions; 5 Patterns of discovery: artists; 6 Patterns of exploration: writers; 7 Grander stages: New seasons for Australian playwrights and actors; 8 Long and winding musical roads: the careers of Australian expatriates and Australian music; 9 The yellow brick road to the land of OZ ... and beyond; 10 Journalists' journeys; 11 Crucible to firmament: Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James and the Expatriate Search for Fame; 12 Home and identity.