Centred around the University of Melbourne’s Student Union and Carlton’s La Mama Theatres, Australian theatre found a voice of its own in 1967. In 2007, to celebrate 40 years of Australian theatre, a restaging of Jack Hibberd’s seminal White With Wire Wheels was held at the University of Melbourne with an accompanying symposium.
The papers in this issue of Double Dialogues are the result of that symposium, covering topics that illuminate the reign of the ‘New Wave’ (1967-70), the social and political change of the late '60s, and the legacy of the ‘New Wave’ in Australian theatre history: the key productions, the plays and the writers.