The Redemptive Power of Theatre and the Pursuit of Justice in Our Country’s Good

• 作者: CHEN Jing-xia
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: THEATRE in CRISIS transformative influence REHABILITATION JUSTICE Mrs. Thatcher
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（1）
• 页码范围: 33-40
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

This paper aims to understand Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good in the context of theatre in crisis in the 1980s Britain and attempts to find the contemporary resonance of this history play. Through exploring the adaptation and workshop of the play, discussing the transformative influence of rehearsals on the convicts in the Australian penal colony, and expounding on theatre as an important venue for rehabilitation and justice in contemporary society, the paper intends to disclose the playwright’s commitment to theatre, her reassertion of the social role of theatre in contemporary Britain and her critique of Mrs. Thatcher’s philistinism which impaired art, particularly theatre, to a great degree.