This guide introduces you to physical and online information, resources and tools. They have all been carefully selected to help you study or research Performance at Monash.
The guide will also help you to develop your skills in finding useful material.
For Performance studies, physical materials such as books and audio-visual materials are mostly held at the Matheson (Clayton) Library and Caulfield Library..
AusStage: the Australian live performance database
Provides an accessible online resource for researching live performance in Australia. Information about performances is recorded in six main ways: Events, Venues, Contributors, Organisations, Resources and Works.
Digital Theatre Plus
A digital streaming video collection of leading British theatre productions including documentaries and learning resources
Drama Online: Critical studies and performance practice
Provides critical and contextual studies, pedagogic content and practitioner texts to complement Drama Online's core collection of over 2,500 plays. Titles in the collection are grouped under either "Context and Criticism" or "Theatre Craft" and can be discovered by browsing these categories or by searching by title, subject, period or theme.
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with full text
Provides a comprehensive collection of publications in the French language in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. Some content is full text.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database (ProQuest)
An index of 400 scholarly and trade publications covering dance, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, storytelling, performance art, film and television. including 134 titles in full text.
Routledge Performance Archive
Interviews, master classes and documentaries from theatre makers and actor trainers worldwide including material from the British Library's Experimental Theatre and Live Art Collection are included.
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