Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD
21 – 23 November 2024
DIRECTOR Chrissie Garrett
Production Manager Jane Shanahan
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This is a powerful multi-layered play about the novel The Playmaker – the story of those who performed the play The Recruiting Officer. It focusses on rehearsal of the play among convicts and officers in a Botany Bay penal colony in the 1780s. It is sad, tender and painful. But, it is a story of hope and redemption demonstrating people can change. Barriers and stereotypes can fall away, once people get to know each other. Chrissie’s passion for the particular historic period and knowledge of the actual settlement will make for an absorbing creative experience.
CAST
The cast is as follows.
Arthur Philip – Andy Parsons
Ralph Clark – Richard Morris
John Wisehammer – Philip Fine
Robbie Ross – Bruce Walton
Ketch – Martin Crook
David Collins – Jem Turner
Sideway – Ian Nutt
Tench – Stephen Rouse
Caesar – Suchit Kulkaini
Harry Brewer – Phil Wintle
John Arscott – Robert Hoare
Rev Johnson – Andrew Whiffin
William Faddy
– Arthur Stewart-Turner
Jemmy Campbell – Nik Lester
Liz Morden – Hilary Beaton
Mary Brenham – Emily England
Duckling – Hannah Ramsden
Dabby – Helen Williams
Meg Long – Janice Lake
Director: Chrissie Garrett
Production Manager: Jane Shanahan
Stage Manager: Amy Crook
Set: Richard Ashby
Costumes: Jane Shanahan
Props: Terry Andrews
Lighting: Clare Lester + Mill
Sound: Robin Williams
Band: Jim Plester, Dave Lovick
Ian Gow, John Wright