Show Plot Our Country's Good

Authors: Timberlake Wertenbaker

Time Period: 1787 to 1789 (late 18th century)

Setting: Sydney Cove / Port Jackson (Botany Bay) in New South Wales, Australia. The play moves between the hold of a British transport ship and the harsh, sparse landscape of the early penal settlement

Summary: Our Country's Good follows Royal Marines and convicts in a remote Australian penal colony who stage a production of George Farquhar’s comedy The Recruiting Officer.