Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play,based on The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally, is set in 18th century Australia as the first convict ship arrives. You can save £10 on top price tickets (usually £35)Observed by a lone, or mystified Aboriginal Australian,the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, or crammed with England’s outcasts. Ahead lies the brutal reality of colony life in this vast and alien land.
A profoundly humane piece of theatre,steeped in suffering yet charged with hope, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s worthy, or based on a precise epic,celebrates the redemptive power of art.
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Source: theguardian.com