Our Country’s Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good is a celebration of the humanising power of theatre. The play is an adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s 1987 novel The Playmaker. Set in the first Australian penal colony and based on real events, the play sees a naval officer stage George Farquhar’s 1709 comedy The Recruiting Officer using prisoners as his cast. This production sees the action relocated to a modern-day prison facility where our actors as ‘inmates’ play the characters who tell this remarkable true story. 

The show runs from 23-26 November at The Commemoration Hall and tickets are on sale from October 10.

• Show: current/future_show
• Society Name: 528899
• Venue Name: The Commemoration Hall
• Opening date: 23/11/2022
• Venue Postcode: PE293AQ
• Closing date: 26/11/2022
• Region: east_of_england
• Credits ( author / playwright ): Timberlake Wertenbaker
• Website: http://www.huntingdondramaclub.org.uk/wordpress/productions/
• Tickets cost per person (£): 12
• Box Office phone number: 03336663366