DIVING FOR PEARLS ESSAY In the play Diving for Pearls by Katherine Thomson, the audience or reader are subjected to a play that not only addresses the issues of restructuring and redundancy in the working class towns, and the effect on the lives of the people involved, but they also see a world of the main characters, den’s, social life, which I believe Thompson uses as a symbol for the future of the town. …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…She uses techniques such as a very realistic stage setting to make the play appear more realistic and convincing. Australian working class language to make the play appear ‘closer to home’. And she uses a very ‘filmic’ style of structure to position the audience to view the world created by the play and the issues and characters in that world more convincing. The dramatic techniques used portrait the play as very realistic to the audience.