Our country's good. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Timberlake Wertenbaker ; based on the novel The playmaker by Thomas Keneally ; edited by Sophie Bush.
• Authors: Wertenbaker, Timberlake
• Editors: Bush, Sophie
• Other Names: Keneally, Thomas
• Contents: CommentaryChronology: ­ A timeline of Wertenbaker's life and works, set alongside key theatrical, social and political events of the period.Contexts:- The 1780s: Attitudes to Crime and Punishment; The First Fleet and the Penal Colony of New South Wales; Theatrical Styles and Conventions; The Recruiting Officer- The 1980s: Attitudes to Crime and Punishment; Theatre Funding; The Royal Court, Max Stafford-Clark and the 'Joint Stock Method'; The Playmaker- Timberlake WertenbakerThemes: - Guilt and Innocence; Punishment, Rehabilitation and Redemption; The Value of Theatre; Language, Silence and Voice; ColonialismDramatic Devices: - Language(s): Regional Dialects; Articulacy and Inarticulacy; The Aborigine- Episodic Structure- Theatrical Style: Multi-roling and Cross-casting; Brechtian Aesthetic- Options for DesignProduction History- A TimelineCritical Reception- Critical response, recognition and influence- The Play TodayAcademic Debate:­ A brief discussion of academic responses to the playFurther Study: A bibliography of texts for further study - A discussion of Comparative Literature (by Wertenbaker and others)PLAY TEXT - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 812.6; Theater -- Australia -- Drama; Prisons -- Australia -- Drama; Australia -- History -- 1788-1851 -- Drama
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350097902; 9781350097896
• Related ISBNs: 9781350097889
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