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How melodrama became the theme running through the 2026 Perth Festival

  • Written by Jonathan W. Marshall, Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
How melodrama became the theme running through the 2026 Perth FestivalHaribo Kimchi/Perth Festival

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral values.

Such a tendency within the arts to depict extremes of emotional life, and to do so overtly and with clarity, was...

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