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Our Country's Good
Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts. Colony discipline in this vast and alien land is brutal. Three proposed public hangings incite an argument: how best to keep the criminals in line, the noose or a more civilised form of entertainment? The ambitious Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark steps forward with a play. But as the mostly illiterate cast rehearses, and a sense of common purpose begins to take hold, the young officer's own transformation is as marked and poignant as that of his prisoners. A profoundly humane piece of theatre, steeped in suffering yet charged with hope, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (based on a true story) celebrates the redemptive power of art. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, london, in 1988, winning the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award. This edition was published to coincide with a major revival production at the National Theatre, which opened on 19 August 2015.
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Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker
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#frideas @SailorMoon

🗽 America, born in the District of Columbia
🏖 My dream is Hawaii but would love to live in the UK or Australia for a little bit.
🌌 Mars
🍴 Lived in the south most of my life so fried chicken, grits, fried okra to name a few.
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SailorMoon Thanks for playing!!! 💕🤟🏻🌙 5y
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Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Sitting by the fire in the pub with a g&t having a read🔥🍸📚
Love days where you just drive and find somewhere lovely. Hubby is even having a read too 😍

Jillybeane Jealous! 5y
suzie.reads @Jillybeane needed a warm it's absolutely freezing ❄❄❄ 5y
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This is a fantastic play about the first convicts shipped from England to Australia. The convicts are putting on a play and we see how theatre and creativity changes them and unites them and offers hope. It‘s an incredibly smart play with so many themes and tells the story really well with very unique character voices and a lot of small lines with big impact and meaning.

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Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Pickpick

Uni has just started and this is one of our assigned reads for English! I would normally never take much interest in a book like this but I loved it.

In just 91 pages of play script I became invested in, and came to care about the characters, and how the story progresses for them. I should read more books like this.