A Level drama students at Kingswood School in Bath are putting on a performance of Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker from Wednesday 7 – Friday 9 December at 7.30pm in the Kingswood Theatre.
Based on real lif
e events described in the book, The Playmaker, by Thomas Keneally, the play is essentially a love story and tale of redemption but also explores the power of theatre and what it means to be human.
A group of convicts and their gaolers, newly arrived in a tough and barren Australia in 1789, decide to put on a production of Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer, which brings one of the officers, Ralph Clarke as the play’s director, and some of the convicts together.
A set text for many A Level drama students, the production has helped those studying at Kingswood to understand completely what it means to stage the play and is a must see for other A Level drama students in Bath and North East Somerset.
Said Kingswood Head of Drama, Kate Nash: “Our Country’s Good is incredibly funny, poignant and thought-provoking and perhaps in these dark times of austerity and political and social turmoil across the globe there has never been a better time to remind ourselves of the redemptive and cohesive power of the Arts and the fact that we have more in common than divides us”.
Tickets are free however there is a retiring collection in aid of the UK Sepsis Trust and the Genesis Trust. The play contains strong language so it is recommended that children younger than 14 are accompanied by an adult.