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Friday 30 Jul 2010
June 2010 / February 2011 Season

"Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion."
The Independent


2 Nov - 18 Nov

Christine Absalom
Ignatius Anthony
Tony Casement
Neil D'Souza
Roger Delves-Broughton
Miranda Floy
Justin Grattan
Lizzie Hopley
Tim Treslove
Yvonne Wandera


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Pay What You Can 7.30pm Mon 6 Nov
Talk Back 7.30pm Wed 8 Nov
Sign Language 7.30pm Thu 9 Nov
Audio Description 7.30pm Wed 15 Nov

Our Country’s Good *2006*
by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Director Sue Lefton

Loved as a modern classic, Our Country’s Good ells of unlikely friendship, power and the struggle to survive. 1789: a young lieutenant sets out to direct a cast of convicts in Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer, the first English play on Australian soil. But conditions are hardly conducive to the production of a comedy: the brutalised and subjugated convicts contend with a lack of scripts, cruel and disapproving officers and a leading lady who may be heading for the gallows. The prisoners find themselves snared between opposing views for improving human behaviour: education or punishment. Amid this squalor, comedy seems as remote a possibility as successfully sowing the seeds of love and hope. Timberlake Wertenbaker’s breathtaking, haunting drama won the 1988 Laurence Olivier Play of the Year and is a superb vehicle for the Mercury Theatre Company actors.
From £8.50

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