Section I (Core): Australian Drama and Theatre
9 dot points across 9 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.
How has Australian theatre developed as a distinctive national tradition, and what historical and cultural forces have shaped it?
Which contemporary Australian playwrights have shaped the twenty-first-century repertoire, and what unites and divides their work?
How does David Williamson use vernacular comedy and middle-class settings to dramatise Australian politics?
How has Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander theatre transformed the Australian theatrical repertoire from the 1990s onwards?
How has Louis Nowra contributed to a darker, more European-influenced strand of Australian playwriting?
How did the New Wave of Australian theatre in the 1970s transform Australian playwriting and performance?
How did Ray Lawler's Doll Trilogy establish a tradition of Australian dramatic realism?
How does The 7 Stages of Grieving use dramatic form and Indigenous storytelling traditions to dramatise collective Aboriginal Australian grief?
How does Summer of the Seventeenth Doll dramatise the collapse of a working-class ritual through Lawler's structure, character, and symbolism?
