Our Country's Good

Play · English · 1988

Play text: Timberlake Wertenbaker

Original work: Thomas Keneally

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Our Country's Good is a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker. Set in the first British penal colony in Australia in 1789, it follows officers and convicts rehearsing George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer and explores punishment, class and the transformative possibilities of theatre.

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Our Country's Good

Banbury Cross Players

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Nov 2024

Banbury · United Kingdom

Our Country's Good

Rotherfield Players

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2009

Rotherfield · United Kingdom

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