Our Country's Good

Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Judith Royer
Presented on Oct. 26-29, Nov. 1-4, Barnelle Theatre

Australia 1789. 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. A moving tribute to the power of theatre to transform lives.

Cast

Sam Pribyl (John Wisehammer/Captain Watkin Tench), Bryce Lutz (Major Robbie Ross, RM/Ketch Freeman), Blake Weise (Captain David Collins, RM/Robert Sideway), Kloii Hummingbird (Reverend Johnson, RM/Caesar/Aborigine), Nicholas Dart (Midshipman Harry Brewer/John Arscott/Captain Jemmy Campbell), Melissa Green (Meg Long/Captain Arthur Phillip, RN), Natalie Nasr (Duckling Smith/Lieutenant George Johnston), Scarlett Moberly (Liz Morden/Lieutenant Will Dawes), Ry Gaffney (2nd Lieutenant Ralph Clark), Sam Kamerman (Dabby Bryant/2nd Lieutenant William Faddy), Jess Gabor (Mary Brenham)

Production Team

Andrea Odinov Fuller (Dialect Coach), John A. Garofalo (Lighting Designer), Charles Erven (Scenic Designer), Leon Wiebers (Costume Designer), Rob Hillig (Sound Designer), Johnny Burton (Properties Master), Jason Sheppard (Technical Director), Patricia McMahon (Costume Shop Manager), Lara Goncalves (Stage Manager), Savannah LaRocca, Shani Hogan (Assistant Stage Managers), Charlie Workmaster (Sound Board Op), Dana Welk (Light Board Op), Kiri Schwalder (Assistant Costume Designer), Rachael Weisz, Isabel Ngo, Godfrey Flax (Scenic Artists), Mathew Attalla, Zoe Au, Sofia Cassidy, Alan Kapustka, Michael Heffner, Diana Raynes, Ria Sodha, Drew Stephenson, Jesse Yu (Scene Painters), Kianna Ismail, Sarah Chabin, Madison Goble, Xavier McNally, Colin Evans, Corinne Wehby, Rachel Kaftan, Polina Capuano (Wardrobe Crew), Gillian Ebersole, Justin Carroll, Marshal McKeever, Madison Hansen, Gloria Santillion, Rebecca Starr, Lisa Lawrence (Costume Work Study), Cameron Kauffman, Keyshawn Garraway Quinn Williams, Emma Whitley, Methane Clark, Mateo Rudich Enzo Mapua, Maren English, Robert Kinsfather, Ben Lyons, Jessica Hadley, Caroline Gillespie, Sofia Cassidy, Cascina Caradonna, Alan Kapustka, Jess Gabor (Scene Shop Work Study), Amanda Nahin, Evan Sun (House Managers), Amanda Lazzarone (Poster Art)

Performed by Special Arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.

Special thanks to: Judith Royer CSJ, Dean Bryant Alexander, Kevin Wetmore, Philip Buiser, Leslie Malitz,  Annalisa Cochrane, Ian Salazar, Kevin Dwyer, Clinton Galloway