Our
Country's Good
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Director and
Scenic, Costume and Sound Designer:
Delores Ringer
Lighting Designer: Nicholas C. Mosher
Voice and Dialect Coach: Paul Meier
In June 1789, in the penal colony that was later to become the city of Sydney,
Australia, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's
birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant
Australian prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play
is being produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments—brilliantly
juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor. Wertenbaker's
masterpiece artfully shows how hope and cooperation turned a prison camp into
a country.
| Cast Photos by Matt Jacobson | ||
|
Niccole Thurman as Liz Morden
Lawrence P. Henderson
as Major Robbie Ross |
Dale Buchheister as Governor Arthur Phillip
Katrina
Alford as Duckling Smith and Patrick
Carriere as Midshipman Harry Brewer
Part of the cast
of Our Country's Good |
Eric F. Avery as
Black Caesar
Elisabeth Ahrens
as Mary Brenham and Michael Bradley as 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Clark |
