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

Wertenbaker Timberlake
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350097889
Publisert
2020-03-05
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
132 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, J, 01, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
152

Forfatter
Wertenbaker Timberlake
Volume editor
Bush Sophie

Biographical note

Timberlake Wertenbaker 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). Other plays include The Love of the Nightingale (1989), Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1992), The Line (2009) and Jefferson's Garden (2015) for which she won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play 2016. Sophie Bush is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011, and in September 2013, her first book, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

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

Wertenbaker Timberlake
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Wertenbaker Timberlake
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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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... Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, and many other major awards, Our Country's Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991. 'Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion.' Georgina Brown, Independent It is published here in a new Student Edition, alongside commentary and notes by Sophie Bush. The commentary includes a chronology of the play and the playwright’s life and work as well as discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created.
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Commentary Chronology: ­ 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 Wertenbaker Themes: - Guilt and Innocence; Punishment, Rehabilitation and Redemption; The Value of Theatre; Language, Silence and Voice; Colonialism Dramatic Devices: - Language(s): Regional Dialects; Articulacy and Inarticulacy; The Aborigine - Episodic Structure - Theatrical Style: Multi-roling and Cross-casting; Brechtian Aesthetic - Options for Design Production History - A Timeline Critical Reception - Critical response, recognition and influence - The Play Today Academic Debate: ­ A brief discussion of academic responses to the play Further Study: A bibliography of texts for further study - A discussion of Comparative Literature (by Wertenbaker and others) PLAY TEXT - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
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Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm
A Student Edition of Timberlake Wertenbaker's groundbreaking play, Our Country's Good, about a group of convicts trying to stage a play under the direction of a young lieutenant in 1780s Australia.
Our Country's Good was awarded the Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play in 1988 and was nominated for six Tony awards
"Must-haves for any students exploring these modern classics, or indeed anyone teaching Literature or Drama." – Teach Secondary Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of modern and classic plays designed for students' study. Each one offers the complete text of the play as well as contemporary commentary, written by experts in the field, that provides students with an in-depth look into the background, themes and history of the play. They include: - An introduction giving a complete background to the play and a discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created. - A chronology of the playwright’s life and work, and review of the play’s production history. - Questions for further study and preparation for examinations along with suggestions for primary and secondary materials for further study.
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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... Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, and many other major awards, Our Country's Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991. 'Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion.' Georgina Brown, Independent It is published here in a new Student Edition, alongside commentary and notes by Sophie Bush. The commentary includes a chronology of the play and the playwright’s life and work as well as discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created.
Les mer
Commentary Chronology: ­ 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 Wertenbaker Themes: - Guilt and Innocence; Punishment, Rehabilitation and Redemption; The Value of Theatre; Language, Silence and Voice; Colonialism Dramatic Devices: - Language(s): Regional Dialects; Articulacy and Inarticulacy; The Aborigine - Episodic Structure - Theatrical Style: Multi-roling and Cross-casting; Brechtian Aesthetic - Options for Design Production History - A Timeline Critical Reception - Critical response, recognition and influence - The Play Today Academic Debate: ­ A brief discussion of academic responses to the play Further Study: A bibliography of texts for further study - A discussion of Comparative Literature (by Wertenbaker and others) PLAY TEXT - OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
Les mer
Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm
A Student Edition of Timberlake Wertenbaker's groundbreaking play, Our Country's Good, about a group of convicts trying to stage a play under the direction of a young lieutenant in 1780s Australia.
Our Country's Good was awarded the Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play in 1988 and was nominated for six Tony awards
"Must-haves for any students exploring these modern classics, or indeed anyone teaching Literature or Drama." – Teach Secondary Methuen Drama Student Editions are expertly annotated texts of modern and classic plays designed for students' study. Each one offers the complete text of the play as well as contemporary commentary, written by experts in the field, that provides students with an in-depth look into the background, themes and history of the play. They include: - An introduction giving a complete background to the play and a discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created. - A chronology of the playwright’s life and work, and review of the play’s production history. - Questions for further study and preparation for examinations along with suggestions for primary and secondary materials for further study.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350097889
Publisert
2020-03-05
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
132 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, J, 01, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
152

Forfatter
Wertenbaker Timberlake
Volume editor
Bush Sophie

Biographical note

Timberlake Wertenbaker 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). Other plays include The Love of the Nightingale (1989), Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1992), The Line (2009) and Jefferson's Garden (2015) for which she won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play 2016. Sophie Bush is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011, and in September 2013, her first book, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

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