Our Country’s Good prizes the concerns of the actors over the audience

Our Country’s Good

Olivier Theatre, until 1 October

Henry V

Temple Church, until 5 September

Australia, 1788. A transport ship arrives in Port Jackson (later Sydney harbour) carrying hundreds of convicts and a detachment of English officers under orders to guard the prisoners and to implant the roots of a well-ordered colony. These facts form the basis of Our Country’s Good, which was created in 1988 by Timberlake Wertenbaker in collaboration with Max Stafford-Clark’s Joint Stock company.

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TaggedActing, Agincourt, Australia, convicts, David Garrick, Henry V, Max Stafford-Clark, Olivier theatre, Shakespeare, Temple Church, The Recruiting Officer, Theatre, Timberlake Wertenbaker, trenches

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Our Country’s Good prizes the concerns of the actors over the audience

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