The Rough Hewn - Our Country's Good

our country's good

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good examines the leadup to the first performance of a play by Europeans in Australia. The First Fleet convicts rehearse Farquar's The Recruiting Officer. At times poignantly moving and at others hilariously funny, Our Country's Good, adapted from Thomas Kennealy's novel The Playmaker, pits imagination against bitterness and brutality and finds through the redemptive nature of the theatre, the possibility of a new future.

Directed by Geoff Cartwright
Designd by Louise Harding and Geoff Cartwright

Cast:

John Arscott/Harry Brewer/Jemmy Campbell - Chris Turner
Black Caesar/Watkin Tench/The Aborigine    - Exziles Dorvil
John Wisehammer/Arthur Phillip                   - Geoff Cartwright
Ketch Freeman/Robbie Ross                        - Andrew Drummond
Robert Sideway/David Collins                       - Jarrad Bizzaca
Ralph Clarke                                               - Alastair Buchanan
Mary Brenham/Meg Long/ Rev Johnson         - Courtney Farrow
Dabby Bryant/William Faddy                        - Jessamy Keily
Liz Morden/Will Dawes                                - Jenna Martin
Duckling SMith/George Johnstone                - Katherine Lunny