Dramaturge/Designer Report for Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet Dramaturge/designer Report
Dramaturge:
The dramaturge explores the inner and outer world of the play and how the use of Design can be appropriate to the plays context and accurately portray the playwright’s intention while still conforming to the conventions and practices of the period.
Location: Mainly Nedlands Western Australia (no. 1 Cloudstreet) but also rural WA, Margaret River and Geraldton.
Time: 1943-1963
Social Conditions: Final two years of World War Two, The Korean War and the Vietnam War, the Eric Edgar Cook Murders and the Assassination of John F Kennedy. There was a great fear of socialism and communism and still social tension towards immigrants.
Political Climate: Prime Minister ship of Robert Menzies a time of little reform and a conservative stable government. Tension and Hostility was experienced in the later years as young men were conscripted in The Vietnam War.
Economical Conditions: Post War Economy many welfare and social reforms to support the working class and banks were not nationalized. Australia had emerged as its own independent nation and modernized nation and economy after WW2. Many immigrants worked on government schemes such as the snowy mountains project and unemployment was quite low.
Cultural Background and Information: the Background of the stolen generation of the girls who were removed from their families and sent to live at the house with the Widow. This explores the aboriginal notion of belonging and how life becomes connected to the land and the places where memories and emotions are strong. The struggles of working class Australian families are explored particularly in terms of class and economical struggles during the post WW2 period.
Playwrights intention: the novel and in extension the play is representative of the sense of nostalgia Tim Winton felt for the post war Period up to the Vietnam War. Winton saw it as a time where family values and the way of life was more wholesome
Dramaturge:
The dramaturge explores the inner and outer world of the play and how the use of Design can be appropriate to the plays context and accurately portray the playwright’s intention while still conforming to the conventions and practices of the period.
Location: Mainly Nedlands Western Australia (no. 1 Cloudstreet) but also rural WA, Margaret River and Geraldton.
Time: 1943-1963
Social Conditions: Final two years of World War Two, The Korean War and the Vietnam War, the Eric Edgar Cook Murders and the Assassination of John F Kennedy. There was a great fear of socialism and communism and still social tension towards immigrants.
Political Climate: Prime Minister ship of Robert Menzies a time of little reform and a conservative stable government. Tension and Hostility was experienced in the later years as young men were conscripted in The Vietnam War.
Economical Conditions: Post War Economy many welfare and social reforms to support the working class and banks were not nationalized. Australia had emerged as its own independent nation and modernized nation and economy after WW2. Many immigrants worked on government schemes such as the snowy mountains project and unemployment was quite low.
Cultural Background and Information: the Background of the stolen generation of the girls who were removed from their families and sent to live at the house with the Widow. This explores the aboriginal notion of belonging and how life becomes connected to the land and the places where memories and emotions are strong. The struggles of working class Australian families are explored particularly in terms of class and economical struggles during the post WW2 period.
Playwrights intention: the novel and in extension the play is representative of the sense of nostalgia Tim Winton felt for the post war Period up to the Vietnam War. Winton saw it as a time where family values and the way of life was more wholesome