Our Country's Good

Expressions of Interest. Audition date to be advised. Richmond Players is a community based amateur theatre company in the far north western suburbs of Sydney. The company is planning to produce Our Country's Good with performances in August, 2010 and rehearsals starting in late May. The play has up to seventeen male roles and five female roles. We are especially looking for amateur male actors. Contact Harry Terry (see telephone number and email address) for more information. This is part of the Macquarie Bicentenary celebrations. Our Country’s Good is the story of convicts and Royal Marines of the First Fleet of 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 it is possible for ‘theatre to be a humanising force'.