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Mind Map by Meredith A, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Meredith A
over 8 years ago
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Our Country's Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker
- STAGE/SET
Peter McKintosh
- White powder on floor all
around raised circular
platform
- Red lights shone onto it.
Made powder glow vibrant
red colour
- Effect of sand - dry, hot
conditions
- Effect of sand - dry, hot
conditions
- Red lights shone onto it.
Made powder glow vibrant
red colour
- Drum revolve
stage
- Big, circular wooden platform which rotated and
could split in half. One half would rise to give
another level
- Effective when accentuating
different classes between
captains/lieutenants and convicts
- Effective when accentuating
different classes between
captains/lieutenants and convicts
- Big, circular wooden platform which rotated and
could split in half. One half would rise to give
another level
- Cyclorama on
back wall
- Aboriginal artwork
displayed here
- Blue, orange, red stripes
going horizontally across-
feel of being in foreign
country
- Blue, orange, red stripes
going horizontally across-
feel of being in foreign
country
- Aboriginal artwork
displayed here
- National Olivier
Theatre
- Stage props
- Brown, cuboid,
wooden boxes
scattered on
circular
platform
- Cargo on/from ship
- Cargo on/from ship
- Multiple hangman's
nooses hung from metal
bar which was suspended
in air from ceiling. Some
hang down. Some wrap
around bar
- There all the time- constant
reminder to audience Liz Morden is
about to hang. Eerie/shocking effect
- There all the time- constant
reminder to audience Liz Morden is
about to hang. Eerie/shocking effect
- Brown, cuboid,
wooden boxes
scattered on
circular
platform
- White powder on floor all
around raised circular
platform
- GENRE
- Epic Theatre
- Linear - narrative
(runs in chronological
order)
- Happens over
a long time
- Larger than life -
characters are
representative
- Lots of events
- Linear - narrative
(runs in chronological
order)
- Epic Theatre
- Style
- Realism
- Representational
characters
- 19th Century theatrical
movement seeking to portray
real life on stage
- Representational
characters
- Realism
- LIGHTING
Neil Austin
- When light comes from
above/in front- light, happy,
sunshine (for captains)
- When light comes from
below/behind- shadowy, dark
(for the convicts)
- Opening scene with Aborigine.
Yellow, warm light onto backcloth.
Shone from below-casts huge
shadow of character
- Use of very bright, intense light -
unforgiving feel of heat. Used with
red to emphasise
- Prison scene - dark - picked up outlines of people.
Gobo used to project bars onto floor. Haze
machine used and yellow light was shone through
it to create dank, dusty atmosphere. Small
highlights on Liz Morden. Picking her out of
darkness
- When light comes from
above/in front- light, happy,
sunshine (for captains)
- DIFFERENCES
TO ORIGINAL
PLAY
- Aborigine speaks foreign
language (by the end speaks
english - colonisation)
- Use of songs - distraction?
lose power of message?
- Casting - doubling
up
- Gives message - everyone
has potential to be both
convict and captain
- Gives message - everyone
has potential to be both
convict and captain
- Aborigine speaks foreign
language (by the end speaks
english - colonisation)
- POLITICAL MESSAGE
- How do we
treat/punish/reward
- Power of ART
- Colonisation - impacts on
Aborigine
- Aborigine gets ill - pustules
on his skin
- Aborigine gets ill - pustules
on his skin
- How do we
treat/punish/reward
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