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Our Country’s Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, is a play that begins in the hold of the vessel Sirius, a convict ship. The ship is on its way to Australia, where the British Empire notoriously shipped criminals to get them away from the British Isles. At the start of the play, convicts aboard the Sirius witness a flogging and speak fearfully.  · Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play Our Country's Good tells the unlikely story of a group of convicts in the first colony in Botany Bay putting on a production of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy The Recruiting Officer in Director Matt . The true story of the first convict colony in Australia, Our Country’s Good is fearlessly bold and vibrantly theatrical. A play which cunningly redresses ideas about the morality of crime and punishment. We are talking about criminals, often hardened criminals. They have a habit of vice and bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.

Set towards the end of the 18th century in an Australian penal colony, Our Country's Good is author Timberlake Wertenbaker's paean to theatre. Showing as it does theatre's potential to redeem, enlighten and transform, the play has lost none of its power since it was first performed at the Royal Court in Timberlake Wertenbaker (born ) is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others. She has been described in The Washington Post as "the doyenne of political theatre of the s and s".. Wertenbaker's best-known work is Our Country's Good, which received six Tony nominations for its "OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD" by Timberlake Wertenbaker adapted from the novel "The Playmaker" by Thomas Keneally. produced, directed and designed by John Fogle OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD is set in the Australia of the s, where Sidney is little more than a God-forsaken penal colony, composed of British soldiers, jailers, executioners and.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning play Our Country's Good tells the unlikely story of a group of convicts in the first colony in Botany Bay putting on a production of George Farquhar's Restoration Comedy The Recruiting Officer in Director Matt Beresford returns to talk us through the play. Our Country's Good is a play written by British playwright, Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker. The story concerns a group of Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New South Wales, in the s, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer. It was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 10 September , directed by Max Stafford-Clark. It ran on Broadway in Our Country's Good essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. A Comparison of The Tempest and Our Country's Good: Beyond Dialogue and Conventional Stage Action ; Comic Elements in The Tempest and Our Country's Good.