The Sugar Act 1 Scene 1 Summary

The beginning scenes are important to the play, because these scenes are the exposition of the play and help the audience to make meaning. In the beginning scene of the play, the stage is set out to make the Munday Family household appear as poor, which evident through timeframe, which is 1929, which was the peak of the great depression, Government Well Aboriginal Reserve, Northam, Morning, 1929, and on the setting members of the Munday family are playing cricket with homemade equipment, DAVID and CISSIE play cricket with a home-made bat and ball. It is also important to note that cricket is a very Australian sport, and the mention of Don Bradman, who is a iconic australian cricket. This presents a loss of culture.

The way each character speaks indicates the personality of the characters. However it is obvious from all the aboriginal characters that they mainly talk in English as opposed to Nyoongah language. By doing this Davis highlights the loss of culture of the
It also important to note that in the opening, Sam prepares tea, with generous portions of sugar. Later on in the play the sugar is taken away from them, mainly because the ‘whites’ were given higher priority than the ‘blacks’. The scenes present each character with similarities, which evoke the audience to feel sympathy to the ’blacks’, since they are marginalised from the rest of society. However the play does not provide one point of view of the 2 different groups. This is clearly seen through how the scenes are arranged. The first scene shows the aboriginals views, the second the white’s views, and the third the white’s influence on the blacks. The play invites the readers to position ourselves to make comparisons with the Nyoongahs, to point out that we have similarities, apart from culture. The play presents of how we have the right to choose our