Our Country's Good review " Timberlake Wertenbaker revises penal colony epic for a new world
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonRachel O'Riordan directs a new version of the play about the rehabilitative force of theatre in colonial Sydney The curtain is a union jack, opening on to uncultivated land " sand, rock and trees. This is 18th-century Australia where Sydney is under construction, Indigenous communities are besieged by British colonial settlements and the Royal Navy is not only governing the land but also cont…