Our Country's Good

Auditions for Our Country's Good will be held on Tuesday 4th May from 6.00p.m. Our Country’s Good is the story of convicts and Royal Marines of the First Fleet in 1788. It follows Second Lieutenant, Ralph Clark's attempts to put on a production of The Recruiting Officer with a cast of male and female convicts. The play shows the class system in the convict camp and discusses themes such as sexuality, punishment, the Georgian judicial system, and the idea that that it is possible for ‘theatre to be a humanising force'. As such it portrays the conditions, the social structure and the emotional health of not only the convicts but also the marines. Although a decade before Macquarie it does give an insight to what Macquarie faced on his arrival. Our Country's Good is part of the Hawkesbury City Council's Macquarie Bicentenary Celebrations. Our Country’s Good has a cast of 22: seventeen males and five females.For further details see web page.