Our Country's Good: Based on the Novel the "Playmaker" by Thomas Keneally (Methuen Modern Plays)

by TimberlakeWertenbaker (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.26

  Part of the Modern Plays series aimed at the burgeoning readership of young theatregoers, this title and five others are reissued, representing the range and vitality of the list of 170 titles in print . This play, set in the Australia of 1789, tells the story of a young lieutenant.

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  Paperback
  1998

  $3.40

  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... Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm (Sunday Times); Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)