Robert Kimber (8 works by) (a.k.a. Robert James Kimber )
Born: Established: 6 Nov 1935 Adelaide ;
Gender: Male
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 Anne's preferred BAL author Editors please note: Archival holdings (Photographs of the Adelaide University Strolling Players...Large black and white portraits of the Director, Dr. Robert Kimber and the performers...) do not appear in the library catalogue, so I have put the Local ID. They are listed at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/records/archives/guide/0332.htm. His 'Themes in Australian Drama', a history of Australian drama based on his university lectures, is being translated into Spanish and has a promise of publication by the U of Barcelona. Then he hopes to get it published in English AC 11.4.05

BiographyHistory

Robert Kimber was educated at Adelaide University before undertaking further drama studies in the United Kingdom and the USA, doing a PhD thesis on Performance Space as Sacred Space in Aranda Corroboree (University of Colorado, 1988). He has been principal lecturer at Theatre Nepean, lecturer in Drama at the University of Adelaide, and artistic director and playwright. He has published works on drama including Communication through Drama (2 vols, 1973, 1976). He has had several plays performed, some of which have been award winners. Since his retirement he has undertaken Spanish studies and some translation of poetry. He has had articles on Bertolt Brecht published through the university of Barcelona.

Notes

  • With Celeste Walters he wrote several one-act plays on social themes for secondary schools: 'Power Plays' (1991). Some of the plays have been performed but the work was never published and remains in the authors' possession.