Our Country's Good at Piven Theatre Workshop

Dates: (3/8/2018 - 3/25/2018 )

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Piven Theatre Workshop

927 Noyes St
Evanston,IL 60201

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Unexpected situations are often matched by unexpected virtues in people, are they not?

In 1789, Britain’s jails were overflowing. Stealing something as insignificant as a loaf of bread was a one way ticket to the newly established penal colony of Australia. Dealing with these miserable conditions, a young lieutenant is put in charge of staging a play with a cast made up of convicts. Simultaneously funny and poignant, Our Country's Good explores freedom, the redemptive power of theatre and what it means to be human.

Our Country's Good, written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keanally (Schindler’s List), won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1988 and opened on Broadway in 1991.
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“Rarely has the redemptive, transcendental power of theatre been argued with such eloquence and passion.”
Georgina Brown, Independent

“Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight”
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

Authors

Timberlake Wertenbaker

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