Olivier “Best New Play” Award Winner (1988), encompassing themes of crime and punishment, the importance and of 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).
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