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Full Title: Our Country’s Good. When Published: Our Country’s Good premiered on September 10, 1988. Literary Period: Contemporary. Genre: Realism, Historical Theater. Setting: The British penal colonies in Sydney, Australia in 1788. Climax: Unable to overcome his guilt about having executed two men, Harry Brewer falls ill and dies.
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Our Country’s Good Summary. It is 1787, and a fleet of...
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On a convict ship bound for Australia in 1787, Second...
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In Our Country’s Good, a play about convicts and their...
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Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge...
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An aboriginal man who at various moments throughout the play...
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Our Country's Good Analysis. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by Siciu Magdalena. The play begins with a gruesome image of a prisoner being beaten on the deck of a ship while a lieutenant stands aside and counts the blows ...
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We are plunged straight into the brutality of a flogging and the hunger, fear and misery of the convicts. There is a clear divide between the convicts below deck and the officers who have charge of them. As a group, discuss ways that a ship at night could be suggested and the atmosphere created for an audience.
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Our Country’s Good Summary. It is 1787, and a fleet of British convict ships is bound for Australia, where Captain Arthur Phillip will become Governor of one of the region’s first penal colonies. Not long after the military officers and their prisoners arrive, Phillip discusses the merits of punishment with Judge Collins, Captain Tench, and ...
Marking 30 years since the original production of Our Country’s Good. The evidence presented in this chapter, including the testimonies of life-term prisoners who staged the play in Blundstone Prison in 1989, suggests forcefully that participation in dramatic production can instigate profound physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual transformation, affecting both individuals and ...
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Our Country's Good is a 1988 play written by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker. The story concerns a group of Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New South Wales , in the 1780s, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer .
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Section 2: Set play: Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker 1 Character revision 37 2 Form and structure: The scenes of the play 49 3 Researching context, genre and style: Your discoveries and ideas 51 4 Noting your rehearsal discoveries: Motivations, skills and effects 70 5 Noting your rehearsal discoveries: Notes on a section of the ...
