Production Information
Monday 15 October 1990 to Saturday 20 October 1990 (6 performances)
at Hampton Court Theatre, Hampton Court House, Surrey, United Kingdom
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by Thomas Keneally
Sydney, Australia 1788.
A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in Australia. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who is about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal.
Our Country's Good is one of Timberlake Wertenbaker's best-loved plays and won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988.
