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The evaluation of racial discrimination is a focus within the play Jasper Jones written by Kate Mulvany and performed in 2017. The constant theme and idea of bias judgment against minorities is brought to a modern audience through the medium of theatre, shining a light upon the harsh isolating presentence that white Australians forced upon immigrating families and Indigenous Australians. The impact of systematic and casual racism was a relevant theme presented within rural 1960s Australia that should be made clear to a contemporary audience. The Australian gothic genre shows the eerie nature that the isolated rural town of Corrigan in. Western Australia can become when the whole world is against you. The focus upon the main protagonist Charlie Bucktin, shows his experience seeing the racism second had as it focuses on the people around him. The play presents the journey as Charlie comes of age utilising the dead body of Laura Wishart as the catalyst for his start.
The focus upon the racial discrimination shows Mulvany’s intended meaning within the text. It could be interpreted about feminism and the segregation shown to women in 1960s Australia, but the text lends itself to be interpreted about the systematic and casual racism that is inherent at the time and still being experienced in the modern day.