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Our Country's Good

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Timberlake Wertenbaker

Published by Methuen

Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award 1988

Australia 1789

A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country

But with only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal

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"Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm" ~ Sunday Times

"Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight" ~ Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

"Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion" ~ Georgina Brown, Independent

Our Country's Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991

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