Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker: Approaches to the play

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Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker: Approaches to the playOur Countrys Good is a challenging text. Its style immediately suggests epic theatre, yet it uses mostly naturalistic characterisation. Productions have often used multi roling and this can be used to emphasise the nurture versus nature debate. It is clearly a political play, making a passionate plea for a tolerant approach to convicts, but is also highly comic and genuinely touching at times. It has several key themes: the redemptive power of

corruption

for instance

and an enduring fascination with Japanese culture which has grown as a result of my work developing this scheme

To use Stanislavskian techniques in order to develop your characterisation of Mickey and Eddie as children

The scheme lasts for six weeks (working on the assumption of one drama lesson a week

which is internally assessed by the teacher and externally moderated

drama mediums and elements of drama (some of which they choose for themselves – linking well with independent learning)

The Director and the Stage by Edward Braun

This scheme is about technology - not the technology that can be used in drama

If you are a KS3 student who lives a world of fast-paced visual media

students will have learnt:

It is a teachers’ responsibility to check its suitability for their own students