Wednesday 24 – Saturday 27 April 2013

Our Country's Good

By Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Chris Honer

Sorry, the Saturday performance is now sold out

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good is set in an 18th Century Australian penal colony. When Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark, sets out with a cast of convicts to stage a production of Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, he encounters more challenges than he bargained for. An absorbing, comic and often very moving examination of the redemptive power of theatre in a society that is in its infancy, Wertenbaker's play is spellbinding from the very beginning.

Cast

Captain Arthur Philip, RN/John Wisehammer - Tom Sparkes
Major Robbie Ross, RM/Ketch Freeman - Max Henry-Walsh
Captain David Collins, RM/Robert Sideway - Rory Thomas
Captain Watkin Tench, RM/The Aborigine/Black Caesar - Lladel Bryant
Captain Jemmy Campbell, RM/John Ascott/Harry Brewer - Assad Zaman
Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark, RM - Simon Jenkins
Lieutenant Will Dawes, RM/Liz Morden - Hayley Gowland
Lieutenant George Johnstone, RM/Duckling Smith - Mabel Wright
Reverend Johnson/Mary Brenham/Meg Long - Holly Fishman Crook
Second Lieutenant William Faddy, RM/Dabby Bryant - Elisha Michael-Sesay

Designer: Lara Booth