Synopsis

Our Country’s Good isTimberlake Wertenbaker’s phenomenal playabout the early colonisation of Australia and the redemptive powers of theatre as a group of transported convicts stage a production of a classic in a penal colony in New South Wales in the 1780s. Now back in London, directed again by Max Stafford-Clark who was also responsible for its original Royal Court premiere 25 years ago,this is one of the great plays of and about the theatre, staged by one of its greatest living exponents with overwhelming warmth and humanity.”