Sub sections:
Mr Andrew McCue
Lecturer, School of English, Communication and Theatre
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (UNE), MA
Contact
| Email: | amccue@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 LG2 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2240 (or +61 2 6773 2240 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2623 |
Andrew MCue teaches in a variety of areas of theatre theory and practice, ranging through modern European theatre, Australian theatre, and the "classics." His special interests are, the theatre of Samuel Beckett, popular theatre, the use of various popular and folk music traditions in dramatic performance, script-writing and play construction, the natural and political bond between the ephemeral performances (music and theatre) as well as the rarely stable, but sometimes stabilising relationship between theatre and philosophy.
As a theatre practitioner, interested in the theatre as a vital part of oral and parochial cultures, Andrew has participated in many ways in local Armidale theatre activities: as an actor, director, musical director, and script-writer, as well as a composer, lyricist and musician. Besides the normal activities of university drama and revue, these activities have included performance projects with local small businesses and community groups, as well as professional engagements with the (now defunct) New England Theatre Company. He has also composed, produced and recorded several professional theatre and film scores, including for the ABC and M & A's TV documentary, Searching, (first televised on the ABC, 1994, and directed by Nicola Woolmington.) With the aid of a local Council grant, a compilation CD of his songs and lyrics, Aspirin' to Failure - largely taken from political cabarets written with John McCallum in the 1980s and 90s - was released in 2001.
Research interests
His current research interests remain "popular," parochial and practical, but with the doors always open to philosophical speculation, poetical permutation, musical palpitation, and potential publishing. These draw him to cross-disciplinary enterprises with Music and Philosophy; and to the work of Jacques Derrida, whose output seems singularly concerned with the topic and techniques of all the above.