This thesis document contains an exploration of my development as a playwright during the three years of the MFA Playwriting Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. The discussion of my evolution as a writer in the Playwriting Program runs concurrent to the progression of my thesis play fight through its inception, development, and production. Also included in this thesis document is the full text of the play fight which was written and produced during my time in the Playwriting Program. / text

This thesis document traces my writing process during the evolution of two play scripts, Emergency Prom and The Body. I examine these contrasting writing processes relative to the notion of necessity, as defined within. In addition to the process paper, this document includes the scripts of both plays. / text

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This dissertation aims to provide an analysis of mainstream Australian playwriting at the turn of the 21st Century. It will argue that mainstream theatre in the 1990s and early 2000s in many ways reflects the concurrent national political developments, in particular the revision of many of the dominant ideals of previous eras, such as those of the sixties. In this dissertation, I will attempt to outline briefly some of the hallmarks of the theatre of the New Wave, and their relation to the broader social movements occurring in Australia at the time. I will trace the beginnings of disillusionment and revising of these ideals in the late seventies and early eighties. The majority of the argument will then discuss the ways in which early nineties theatre engages with and frequently rebuts these earlier ideals, just as nineties politics saw a revision of many of the ideals of the sixties in society as a whole. I will argue that in the latter nineties, mainstream playwrights begin to reverse this conservative shift, reinstating a number of the ideals of the earlier period. I will demonstrate that Australian mainstream theatre at the turn of the century is integrally related to the politics of the society of the time, and that mainstream theatre demonstrates both radical and conservative tendencies through the period under consideration.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-257). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 248-257). Also available on the Internet.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Texas State University--San Marcos, 2008. / Vita. Appendix: leaves 119-135. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-137). Also available on microfilm.

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