Our Country's Good

The following play I am going to evaluate was produced by the Sixth Sense Theatre Company, Dawnham Market High School in Worfolk. It took place in Grange Academy on Wednesday 24th August.

The basic plot of the story is as follows: In June 1789 in the penal colony that was later to become the city of Sydney, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the captain's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant Australian prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is being produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments. The "hangman," himself a convict, has been recruited along with a woman, wrongfully accused of stealing. Even as the play is being rehearsed, he measures her for a noose. All people tend to become what...