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Jim Sharman
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Jimmy Sharman's Boxers
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his unconventional business habits, his furious temper, his leadership and diplomacy. Sharman was twenty seven and medically fit when the war started. We learn the real life stories of several indigenous boxers who were openly defiant against the intense racism they encountered. We meet clumsy Billy Grimes (the flat foot kid) who went on to win several Australian titles. We see an unlikely friendshi...
Jim Sharman
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ
The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ is the in-depth story of not only the legendary stage show and movie but of a unique period in theatrical history – in the movie's UK homeland as well as overseas. Rocky Horror has been performed worldwide for more than 40 years in over 30 countries and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Inside these pages, we see Rocky Horror as sexual cabaret and political subversion, as modern mega-hit and Broadway disaster. At the movie house, we learn when to shout, what to throw – and why people even do those things. Here is the full story of the play's original creation; its forebears and its influences are laid out in loving detail, together with bo...
GRAHAM MATTERS
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Fifty Key Theatre Directors
Discusses each director's key productions, ideas and rehearsal methods, combining theory and practice.
The Last New Wave
Looks at the growth of mass air tourism and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft. The effects on cities such as Venice, subject to frequent flooding, and the climate of Europe and Africa could become much worse as new airline markets such as India and China continue to expand.
The Theatre of Louis Nowra
This highly illuminating book about the life and work of Louis Nowra, is an important contribution to our understanding of one of Australia's major writers. The author is a lecturer in the English Department of the University of Queensland.
Papers of Jim Sharman
The bulk of the papers in this collection relate to the many theatrical productions on which Sharman has worked over the course of his career. They include correspondence, scripts, production notes, reviews, ephemera, photographs, scrap books, costume designs and research notes. There is also correspondence with family, friends and colleagues, appointment diaries, diaries containing Sharman's writings and miscellanous papers relating to specific productions, photographs, posters and a large collection of programs. There is a small group of papers and photographs relating to Sharman's father, Jimmy Sharman.
