Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good
Paperback, 114 pages ISBN: 9781848420434Publication Date:
17 Nov 2010
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good

A Study Guide

By Max Stafford-Clark and Maeve McKeown

Paperback £10.99£8.79

Page to Stage series – highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage.

'Modern classic' was the fitting accolade bestowed on Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good soon after its premiere in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The play tells how a company of convicts staged George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer in the early days of the Australian penal colony.

Having directed the premiere, Max Stafford-Clark brings his own unrivalled insights to this in-depth study of how it actually works on stage. Sections include an introduction about the creation of the play, a discussion of its action moment by moment, the historical context, the characters and how the production was rehearsed and designed for its original production. The result is an invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play.

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'Absolutely fascinating... Even Timberlake Wertenbaker herself might struggle to analyse her writing any better'

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Paperback,114 pages ISBN: 9781848420434Publication Date:
17 Nov 2010
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Max Stafford-Clark:

Taking Stock: The Theatre of Max Stafford-Clark
Journal of the Plague Year
Letters to George

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