OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD 2ND.EDITION - TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER

Libro

Editorial	Bloomsbury Academic
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	WERTENBAKER TIMBERLAKE
ISBN	9781350097889
Peso ( kg )	0,2
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2022
Formato	Tapa rustica
Sinopsis	OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD 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. Table of Contents 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 Edad recomendada: Adultos. WERTENBAKER TIMBERLAKE Timberlake Wertenbaker es una reconocida dramaturga, guionista y traductora nacida en Nueva York en 1951 y radicada en el Reino Unido. Su obra se caracteriza por abordar temas como identidad, desplazamiento y roles de género, con un enfoque político y poético. Es autora de piezas emblemáticas como Our Country's Good y The Love of the Nightingale, ambas premiadas internacionalmente. Ha trabajado con compañías teatrales como la Royal Court y la Royal Shakespeare Company, y actualmente es catedrática de Dramaturgia en la Universidad de East Anglia.
Cantidad de páginas	152
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001