Our Country's Good " review by Michael Billington

St James, LondonTwenty-five years after its premiere, Timberlake Wertenbaker's play remains terrifyingly relevant. Based on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker, it deals with a production of George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer that was performed by assorted felons in New South Wales, Australia, in 1787. But its real theme, the regenerative power of drama, seems more urgent than ever at a time of funding cuts a…

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