Our Country's Good
By Timberlake Wertenbaker
Our Country's Good is a play that needs 12 or more performers (5 women, 7 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 12 or more performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 7 men
- Cast notes
- 7m., 5w., with doubling. Variations possible.
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
A leading London critic describes it as "highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight [as] it relates the true story of the first theatrical performance in Australia." In June 1789 in the penal colony that was later to become the city of Sydney, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant Austral
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