Our Country's Good
By Timberlake WertenbakerBased on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
An amateur production presented by special arrangement with Samuel French LTD
An ambitious young lieutenant, Ralph Clark, is set the task of directing newly arrived convicts in the Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer, in celebration of the King’s birthday. But with a dispirited cast, just two copies of the script, opposition from sadistic officers, a leading lady who faces being hanged, and Ralph’s uncontrollable passion for one of his convict players, Australia’s first theatre production is in trouble from the start
Our Country’s Good is an extraordinary play about the value of the theatre and the redemptive power of art.
Presented by Level 3 Acting Students
