LibGuides: Acting, Dance, and Performing Arts: Acting

Online Resources

Ausstage A comprehensive directory of theatrical productions in Australia
AustraliaPlays.org Australian scripts. Students can get login to view scripts online. See your acting lecturer for details.
Doollee the playwrights database of modern plays The free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays which have been written, adapted or translated, into English since the production of Look Back in Anger in 1956.
Playscripts.com Publisher and supplier
Stageplays.com Publisher and supplier of playscripts
Australian Live Performance Database

Subjects & Call Numbers

Subject Headings and Call numbers are useful to know as items are shelved by subject area in our library.

Searching any of these Subject Headings will find you all items (Books / Ebooks, Documentaries, Journal Articles, etc.) related to that topic.

You may also wish to browse each call number (Dewey Decimal Number) as they represent a particular subject, and these numbers can be used to browse the library's physical shelves on Level 4.

Of course, anything we hold in electronic format will not be found by browsing the shelves, but there is still a lot of very valuable information to be found on our shelves.

You can also use the subject heading to search Library Search which will bring up electronic items as well as hardcopy.

Visit the Advanced Search page on the Library website and enter the exact Subject Heading and select the "Subject" field in the "Search Index"

Aboriginal plays A822.3

Acting 792.028

Costume 391; 646.47; 720.026

Directing 792.0233

Drama 792.07

Drama in education 372.66; 792.07

Drama psychological aspects

Mime 792.3 - 4

Music theatre 782.1

Music in the theatre 782.1

Musicals 792.6

Performance Art 828.91409

Performance, general 791

Play writing 808.2

Plays, American 812.52 - 4

Plays, Australian A822.3

Plays, early English 822.3

Plays, Elizabethan 822.3

Plays, Production 792.9

Plays, Restoration 822.408

Plays, Shakespeare 822.33

Puppets 791.5

Radio Productions 384.54; 791.44

Shakespeare 822.33

Stage Technique

Stanislavski 792.028

Television 384.55; 791.45

television Drama 791.45

Theatre, general 792

Acting Journals

ECU Library has subscriptions to a wide variety of journals. Articles from most of these journals can be found using ECU Library Search however some are listed below if you wish to access the journal directly.

Australasian Drama Studies
Established in 1982, Australasian Drama Studies (ADS) is a fully peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles, interviews, and production casebooks on world theatre by Australasian and international scholars.
Comparative Drama
Comparative Drama is a scholarly journal devoted to studies international in spirit and interdisciplinary in scope.
Contemporary Theatre Review
Contemporary Theatre Review is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre and performance studies.
The Drama Review: TDR
TDR provides scholarship on performances and their social, economic and political contexts. With an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary, it covers dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life
Modern Drama
The terms, "modern" and "drama," are the subject of continuing and fruitful debate, but the journal has been distinguished by the excellence of its close readings of both canonical and lesser known dramatic texts through a range of methodological perspectives.
New Theatre Quarterly
New Theatre Quarterly provides a vital international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet and where prevailing dramatic assumptions can be subjected to vigorous critical questioning.
Performance Research
Researching performance, anticipating tendencies, mapping practices, documenting processes, stimulating inquiry, performing research.
Studies in Theatre and Performance
Studies in Theatre and Performance provides a scholarly platform for academics to describe, critically reflect on, and theorise theatre and performance practices.
Theatre Journal
Drawing contributions from noted practitioners and scholars, Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production.