As an actor, outline your approach to the development of the role of
Ralph in Act One of “Our country’s Good” “Our Country’s Good” is a
naturalistic drama written by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
As an actor, outline your approach to the development of the role of
Ralph in Act One of “Our country’s Good”
“Our Country’s Good” is a naturalistic drama written by Timberlake
Wertenbaker, based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally. The
play is based on the first penal colony in Australia in 1788-89. The
plot is about the first fleet of convicts to the land Australia. It is
about the triumph of the human spirit. It is about real people living
in a foreign and unfamiliar place, surviving against all odds.
Throughout the play, one sees the convicts transform from unrefined
brutes into civilized human beings with self worth through putting on
a production of “The Recruiting Officer” (a play within a play).
Through this creative project the convicts not only learn to care bout
a creative product they can be proud of, but also about each other.
The officers are as well are awakened to the fact that the convicts
are not simply savages but people with real minds who are open to new
ways of thinking.
The Given Circumstances for Ralph’s character are: he is a young lower
status officer who is anxious for a promotion, which influences him to
offer to run the play as he sees it as an opportunity to get noticed
by the Governor Philips. He is at first a depressive reserved,
calculating and charmless man, who is also disturbed in this distant
setting shown by his rituals to his wife who he clearly loves.
However, as with the convicts he undergoes a character development as
he grows in confidence, passion and even humanity as he takes on the
project of the play, of which is touched upon in Act One. It is this
development which I aim to show by outlining my approaches to Ralph in
different scenes in Act One.
The first scene I am going to explore is Scene Four, entitled “The
Loneliness of Man”.
Within this scene, we get a glimpse into Ralph’s character before he
has undergone an alteration in working with the play; lonely,
unsociable, unhappy, and to a certain degree disturbed.
The first unit of the scene is with Ralph by himself, speaking out his
diary which is addressed to his wife. His speech is very long and
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stages. Thus, his tone should have a defiant edge “I don’t see what
the play-”, with a cold voice at a steady pace, incorporating a sense
of power. Here, Ralph is indirectly standing up for the criminals, and
thus showing a growing humanity that is clearly lacking in the other
two officers. However, upon hearing about the newly condemned convicts
and the awful punishment that awaits Liz “Death by hanging”, Ralph
does not intervene, suggesting he is overwhelmed and their authority
has collapsed his. He should thus convey a sense of vulnerability;
collapsed posture, a pained facial expression, heavy breathing and
avoiding eye contact with anyone. This creates a sympathetic audience
reaction to Ralph, for even though he lacks the power to completely
defy the officers, he is clearly affected on a human level to the
treatment of the convicts.
In outlining these two scenes, I aim to show a positive development in
Ralph’s character through his artistic project, from the disturbed,
unhappy, unsympathetic man, completely emotionally disconnected to the
criminals to a more enthusiastic, humane character, encouraging the
criminals and even sticking up for them.
the play. It looks at the person he is and the person he becomes. It
He just wrote this play as you see it at face value; it could be an
shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what
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