Our Country's Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

performed by BTG March 2007

A Play

Sydney, Australia 1788.

A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in Australia. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who is about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal…

Cast
John Hone as Captain Arthur Phillips RN
Simon Hagan as Major Ross RN
Mark Oldknow as Captain Campbell RM
Mark Oldknow as Harry Brewer RN
Paul Henry as Captain Collins RM
Richard Amonoo as Captain Tench RM
Richard Amonoo as Black Caesar
Richard Amonoo as Aborigine
Phil Howe as Lieutenant Clark RM
James Kwasnik as Lieutenant Faddy RM
James Kwasnik as Robert Sideway
Louise Kavanagh as Lieutenant Dawes
Louise Kavanagh as Lizzie Mordern
Bill Kirkby as Lieutenant Johnstone
Megan Lloyd as Mary Brenham
Josie Ayers as Dabby Bryant
Nell Charleston as Duckling Smith
Philip Sheahan as Ketch Freeman
Philip Sheahan as Reverend Johnson
Garth Minikin as John Wisehammer
Lynne Benest as Meg Long
Crew
Director - Jenny Quille
Designer - Mark Oldknow
Production Manager - Helen Sharman
Stage Management - Danielle Jones
Stage Management - Sally McIlhone
Lighting - Andrew Rogers
Sound - Cameron Gower-Poole
Wardrobe - Jenny Quille
Make-up Design - Becky Sharman
Front-of-House Manager - Denise Lathom-Sharp
Publicity - Ben Benest
Print Design - Mark Oldknow
Programme Photographs - Norman Robson
Programme Advertising - Jenny Duffy

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