ABSTRACT
JEREMY ECCLES Re-reading the thoughts I offered to World of Theatre 2000, I came to a
depressing conclusion: either I was remarkably prescient in pointing to the
things that were about to go wrong with the Australian theatre, or not much
has changed. For issues like the funding imbalance between the big and smaller
arts organizations, the international and domestic touring of product for political
reasons rather than artistic ones, and the burden placed upon Aboriginal writing
and performance to be both the conscience of the nation in increasingly
conservative times and the exotic flag-bearer overseas of a mature and varied
culture, were all discussed last time around.
