Our Country’s Good

Australia 1789: A young 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… Winner of the Laurence Oliver Play of the Year Award, 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."

-Independent

Wertenbaker has searched history and found it in a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm.

-Sunday Times