Our Country's Good

Out of Joint Artistic Director Max Stafford-Clark will revisit Timberlake Wertenbaker's Olivier Award winning play, Our Country's Good, in a new production touring the UK this autumn. Looking at the first British convict colony to land in Australia, Our Country's Good will launch at the Octagon Theatre Bolton on 3 September. The production will also visit London's newest venue, St James Theatre, in early 2013.

Our Country's Good premiered at The Royal Court in 1998 when Max Stafford-Clark was Artistic Director. Timberlake Wertenbaker was commissioned to write a play that would complement a revival of George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer. Depicting true events, and based on Thomas Keneally's best selling novel The Playmaker, Our Country's Good received great critical acclaim, transferring to the West End and Broadway and winning the Olivier Award for Play of the Year and the New York Drama Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.