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Discuss your ideas for staging the opening 4 scenes of "Our Country's Good" in order to highlight the issues for the audience
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Discuss your ideas for staging the opening 4 scenes of "Our Country's Good" in order to highlight the issues for the audience Timberlake Wertenbaker was heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and ergo used a lot of his ideas in her work. For Example, when Brecht was writing a script, he meant it so that the audience could be immersed in the message and thoughts behind it rather than the emotions of it all. The case is exactly the same in "Our Country's Good" and because of this it meant that the audience member has to be more of a spectator and observer than actually part of the theatre itself. Hence I would stage it End-On, with the audience looking into the action, to achieve this. I would keep it to a simple set. Include some Cages to instantly show to the audience that we are dealing with convicts in...
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