Using this guide
This guide introduces you to information, resources and tools that have been carefully selected to help you study or research Theatre and Performance at Monash.
For Theatre and Performance studies, physical materials such as books and audio-visual materials are mostly held at the Matheson (Clayton) Library and Caulfield Library.
Key resources in Theatre and Performance studies
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AusStage : the Australian live performance database This link opens in a new windowProvides 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. NOTE: AusStage is being migrated to a new platform and is currently offline.
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Bloomsbury drama online This link opens in a new windowProvides 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.
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Digital theatre plus This link opens in a new windowA digital streaming video collection of leading British theatre productions including documentaries and learning resources
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International bibliography of theatre & dance with full text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive collection of publications in the French language in the social sciences and humanities disciplines. Some content is full text.
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Performing arts periodicals database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowAn 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.
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Routledge performance archive This link opens in a new windowInterviews, 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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