Our Country’s Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, charts the setting up of the first penal colony in Australia in the 18th century. The play focuses around the staging of a play by the convicts, as organised by a young Lieutenant.
The production was heavily influenced by the work of Bertold Brecht in its use of a stark set, bold lighting, live music performed by the actors on stage, and scene titles being displayed on placards.
The sense thus created of a company of actors telling a story encouraged the audience to focus on the social and political messages in the play, and tied in with work at A-level on the effectiveness of Brecht’s theatrical methods.
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