Our Country’s Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Olivier “Best New Play” Award Winner (1988), encompassing themes of crime and punishment, the importance of and role theatre and the indefinable qualities of the human condition, set against the background of late 18th century colonial Australia and the 1788 convict fleet. Is the criminal tendency innate? If a man is a thief, does that mean he was born that way and will forever be that way? Can theatre offer a new path to a colony which is swiftly running out of food, let alone literature? Tacit’s version of this well rounded set of tales aims to show British Colonialism in a light in which it is rarely viewed: a light which “leaves no corner of the stage for the truth to hide in” Bertolt Brecht

Cpt Arthur Philip..........TIM BURTON
Maj Robbie Ross............JAMES GOLDWATER
Cap David Collins..........TOM DAPLYN
Cap Watkin Tench...........ZIAD AFRA
Cap Jeremy Campbell........AL BARCLAY more
Reverend Johnson...........FRANCES BURTON
Lt George Johnston.........NISHA KAUR
Lt Will Dawes..............DENISE ROCARD
Second Lt Ralph Clark......ANTHONY SEBASTIAN
Second Lt William Faddy....EMILY CHUGG more
Midshipman Harry Brewer....AL BARCLAY more
John Arscott...............DENISE ROCARD
Black Caesar...............ZIAD AFRA
Ketch Freeman..............JAMES WHATLEY
Robert Sideway.............TOM DAPLYN
John Wisehammer............BARNEY FERRIS
Mary Brenham...............KIM D’SANTOS more
Dabby Bryant...............EMILY CHUGG more
Liz Morden.................ROSIE WISE
Duckling Smith.............NISHA KAUR
Meg Long...................FRANCES BURTON


Director...................JESSICA BREWSTER
Producer...................ROLAND SMITH
Designer...................ZOE PRICE
Sound Designer.............NIGEL COLLINS
Lighting Designer..........LEO STEELE
ASM........................PHILL VICKERY
Lighting operator..........ALBERT CRICK