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Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally de Timberlake Wertenbaker

Our Country's Good: Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally: Modern Classics

Autor Timberlake Wertenbaker
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 ian 2016
Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal. . ."Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm" (Sunday Times); "Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight" (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474261395
ISBN-10: 1474261396
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:POD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Seria Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Winner of the 1988 Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play 1991.

Notă biografică

Timberlake Wertenbaker was born in France and was Resident Writer for 'Shared Experience' in 1983 and the Royal Court Theatre 1984-85. She is best known for her play Our Country's Good (1988), based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally.

Recenzii

Wertenbaker's play remains terrifyingly relevant ... movingly demonstrates the power of drama to change minds ... it's a play that still leaves its audience, like its subjects, transported.
A trenchant and uplifting case for the transformative power of theatre ... Wertenbaker's play is unashamedly idealistic but it's not sentimental ... how a theatrical production can offer a microcosmic image of liberating self-transcendence and true community.
A modern classic ... bursting with humanity, humour, heartache and passion ... this moving celebration of the power of drama to change lives for the good.
An instant modern classic ... this rich, warm play, with its impassioned advocacy of the humanising power of art ... huge themes roll around the stage - about art, social injustice and inequity, punishment and reform. But Wertenbaker also paints a vivid picture of an impromptu community improvising their way forward.
Vivid and persuasive ... There is love and lust and loss and infighting and cruelty and a few decent laughs too ... earthy, argumentative and alive ... it makes a political point palpable: there's something intrinsically theatrical and implicitly political about the joint act of let's pretend. Our Country's Good reminds us that there is such a thing as society.
A powerful plea for theatre as a humanising force
A modern classic ... a host of meaty themes: injustice, crime and punishment, social boundaries, and the effects of colonialism ... Wertenbaker's writing feels trenchant and satisfyingly fresh. She makes a lucid case for the invigorating, even therapeutic powers of theatre. The result is a politically charged piece, and a hopeful one.
It remains an exceptional piece of writing ... Wertenbaker writes mostly unsentimentally and always interestingly, conjuring a deliciously detailed world.

Descriere

An Australian penal colony in 1789. A young lieutenant directs rehearsals of the Restoration comedy, "The Recruiting Officer". With a cast of convicts, opposition from sadistic officers and a leading lady who is due to be hanged, Australia's first theatrical production is in trouble from the start.

Cuprins

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