Based on a historical incident.
Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts. Colony discipline in this vast and alien land is brutal....
It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, london, in 1988, winning the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award. This edition was published to coincide with a major revival production at the National Theatre, which opened on 19 August 2015.
Based on the lieutenant’s real diaries, The Playmaker is a truly remarkable achievement.
Throughout my analysis I will propose that a character has a specific trait, which I will back up with empirical evidence such as passages from the book where characters are characterized explicitly.
A Level Notes on Our Country's Good by Timberlake WertenBaker
A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal.
Questioning the lengths people should go in the name of a cause, Timberlake Wertenbaker's Winter Hill premiered at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, in May 2017.
The Love of the Nightingale
'This is the very stuff of the theatre', he enthused.112 Stafford-Clark remembers this unprecedented response: 'Three standing ovations at the end of a play is difficult, it's never easy in England, it's not a tradition in this country.