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Our Country’s Good West End

Our Country’s Good

Opened: September 6, 2024
Closing: October 05, 2024
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“Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge of the earth…”

Thomas Barrett, aged 17. Transported seven years for stealing one ewe sheep.

James Freeman, aged 25. Transported 14 years for assault on a sailor.

Dorothy Handland, aged 82. Stole a biscuit.

A ship, sailing 15,000 miles to Australia, is crammed with Britain’s convicts – a punishment for their crimes. After a life-threatening voyage they arrive in 1788. But keeping the colony disciplined is a brutal job, and cruelty is rife. To keep the convicts in line and attempt to ‘civilise’ this often desperate, violent, poverty stricken group, a young ambitious lieutenant, Ralph Clark, decides they should perform a play.



With a mostly illiterate cast, rising mistrust amongst the ranks, and the leading actor facing the gallows, this is a one of a kind theatre production…



In this brand new production, Timberlake Wertenbaker revisits her seminal play examining power and justice in the British justice system. Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan (A Doll’s House, Iphigenia in Splott) directs this Olivier award winning classic based on the extraordinary true story of Australia’s first penal colony. With deportation as punishment more relevant than ever before, Our Country’s Good takes on new meaning in 2024.



__Accessible Performances__


Thursday 19 September – Open Captioned Performance


Saturday 21 September, 2.30pm – Chilled Performance


Saturday 28 September, 2,30pm – Audio Described Performance


Monday 30 September – BSL Interpreted Performance


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Photos: OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in Rehearsal
by Blair Ingenthron - August 25, 2024


Lyric Hammersmith Theatre has released a sneak peek into rehearsals for the major revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Olivier Award-winning classic Our Country’s Good, directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan. Check out the photos here!

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