Our Country’s Good and the Recruiting Officer BBC - Timberlake Wertenbaker, George Farquar Audiobook
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Read by Adam Billington, Adjoa Andoh, full cast, Lisa Dillon, Nicholas Le Prevost, Paul Higgins, Paul Moriarty, Ralph Ineson, Stuart McQuarrie
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Dramatization
Our Country’s Good and the Recruiting Officer
Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
By: Timberlake Wertenbaker, George Farquar
Narrated by: Adam Billington, Adjoa Andoh, full cast, Lisa Dillon, Nicholas Le Prevost, Paul Higgins, Paul Moriarty, Ralph Ineson, Stuart McQuarrie
Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 20-08-2020
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio
A BBC Radio double bill of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s award-winning drama about a group of 18th-century Australian convicts and their attempts to stage a play, plus the Restoration comedy that the prisoners put on.
Australia, 1789: A young lieutenant attempts to direct a cast of convicts in the first play ever to be staged in the country.
But one of his actors is about to be hanged….
Adapted from Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, Our Country’s Good tells the true story of the convicts and marines sent to Australia as part of the first penal colony. An eloquent argument for the redemptive power of theatre, Wertenbaker’s classic drama celebrates the beauty of language – in the slang of the criminal classes and the poetry of the play – and at the same time examines how it is used as an instrument of power.
In The Recruiting Officer, we hear the play that the prisoners staged. George Farquhar’s popular Restoration comedy is set in Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession, where wives are recruited while soldiers are wooed. During a lull in the fighting, the womanising Captain Plume comes to town to seduce soldiers into the army, and – if possible – recruit Silvia into marriage.
These two captivating radio dramas star many of the same cast, including Paul Higgins, Ralph Ineson, Kate Fleetwood, Jonathan Forbes and Adjoa Andoh.
Our Country’s Good © Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2015
Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally © 1978 The Serpentine Publishing Company Pty, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Sceptre
The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar originally published in 1706
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This post has one comment with rating of 5/5
January 22nd, 2023
Farquhar deserves to be much better known: for a playwright who died so young he managed to capture a great deal of Ireland’s experience of occupation, degradation, and alienation;- all while writing what on the face of it seem to be light-hearted farces.
I can’t say I’ve ever got the hang of Wertenbaker. I suppose I respect her politics, but her methods have always seemed to me too indirect to be taken entirely seriously. On the other hand, I find I have this issue with quite a lot of American writing from Dos Passos on.
And ‘Our Country’s Good’ is certainly a fine piece of stagecraft, and adapts very well for radio.
Perhaps I was just expecting too much of it.
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