See Tickets UK: Theatre Offers/New Shows/Black Friday Opportunity

by Jacqueline A. O'Neill · August 23, 2024

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Please see below for this week’s See Tickets UK theatre. If you have any availability to push a Black Friday offering as detailed in red below, please do get in touch

OFFERS

NEW SHOWS

Our Country’s Good

Venue: Lyric Hammersmith, London

On Sale: Awaiting set up, on sale soon

Booking Period: 6 Sep – 5 Oct 2024

Copy: By Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Based on The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally.

Directed by Rachel O’Riordan.

“Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge of the earth…”

Our Country’s Good

Thomas Barrett: Transported seven years for stealing one ewe sheep.

James Freeman: Transported 14 years for assault on a sailor.

Dorothy Handland: 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 in the British justice system, collaborating with consultant Ian Michael to honour the voice and history of Australia’s First Nations People.

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 the British Empire’s most remote penal colony. With deportation as punishment more relevant than ever before, Our Country’s Good takes on new meaning in 2024.