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Our Country's Good
Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally
Series: Student Editions
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Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. 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...
Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, and many other major awards, Our Country's Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991. 'Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion.' Georgina Brown, Independent.
It is published here in a new Student Edition, alongside commentary and notes by Sophie Bush.
The commentary includes a chronology of the play and the playwright’s life and work as well as discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created.
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Based on the reviews, Our Country's Good is celebrated for its humanistic lesson intertwined with a historical narrative, offering a rough yet warm perspective for modern times according to The Sunday Times. The Daily Telegraph highlights its theatrical nature, balancing humour with darker themes to present an emerging civilisation on stage effectively. The Guardian notes its continuing relevance, discussing themes of crime and punishment, and showcases the transformative power of drama.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350097889
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 March 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Edition: 2nd edition
Contributors:
- Volume editor Sophie Bush
Audience: General / adult, Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 152
About the Author
Timberlake Wertenbaker was Resident Writer for Shared Experience in 1983 and the Royal Court Theatre 1984-85. She is best known for her play Our Country's Good (1988). Other plays include The Love of the Nightingale (1989), Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1992), The Line (2009) and Jefferson's Garden (2015) for which she won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play 2016.
Sophie Bush is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University and has previously taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Huddersfield and Manchester Metropolitan. Her doctorate, on the work of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was awarded by the University of Sheffield in 2011, and in September 2013, her first book, The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
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