Theatre
Our Country’s Good
After A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the second Factory Company season at Tobacco Factory Theatres concludes with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s powerful play, based on Thomas Kenneally’s The Playmaker.
The true story of the first convict colony in Australia, Our Country’s Good is fearlessly bold and vibrantly theatrical, redressing ideas about the morality of crime and punishment.
Captain Phillip believes that it is his officers’ duty to rehabilitate convicts rather than continually punish them for their criminal past. He commissions a young and opportunistic Second Lieutenant, Ralph Clark, to stage a theatre production performed by the inmates.
is needed now More than ever
Battling ridicule and the threat of hanging, Ralph and the actors discover the lives they could have led if society had cast them in different roles.
Witty and thought-provoking, Wertenbaker’s masterpiece questions the meaning of ‘civilised’ society as we know it and who has the right to determine and shape its future.
Director Anna Girvan trained in Bristol and honed her craft at Tobacco Factory Theatres. She has since gone on to work at the RSC and the National Theatre, most recently working as Staff Director to Patrick Marber on
Exit the King.
Mon-Sat 7.30pm plus Thur & Sat 2pm, £12 upwards, 2 hr 45 mins incl interval. For more info, visit www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/our-countrys-good-by-timberlake-wertenbaker
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