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\nAustralia 1789.A young married lieutenantis directing rehearsals of the first play everto be staged in that country.With only twocopies of the text,a cast of convicts,manyof them illiterate,and one leading lady whomay be about to be hanged,conditions arehardly ideal for what will be the antipodeanpremiere of George Farquhar's Restorationcomedy,The Recruiting Officer.  \nOur Country's Good,directed by Max Staf-ford-Clark,was premiered at the Royal CourtTheatre,London,in 1988 where it was stagedin repertoire with The Recruiting Officer.Our Country's Good won the EveningStandard Most Promising Playwright Awardand the Laurence Olivier Play of the YearAward for 1988.  \n'a torrent of ideas about the meaning andusefulness of theatre'  \nMalcolm Hay,Time Out  \n'Wertenbaker has searched history andfound in it a humanistic lesson for hardmodern times:tough,sombre,undogmaticand warm.\"John Peter,Sunday Times  \n'a moving and affirmative tribute to thetransforming power of drama'  \nMichael Billington,Guardian  \n'Highly theatrical,oftenfunny and attimesdark and disturbing,it sets an infantcivilisation on the stage with clarity,economy and insight.'  \nCharles Spencer,Daily Telegraph  \n(continued on back flap)  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nOUR  \nCOUNTRY’SGOOD  \n1  \n1  \n# OUR\n\nCOUNTRY’SGOOD  \nby Timberlake Wertenbaker  \nbasedon The Playmaker,a novel by Thomas Keneally  \nThe Royal Court Writers SeriesPublished by Methuenin association with The Royal Court Theatre  \n# THE ROYALCOURTWRITERSSERIES\n\nFirst published in Great Britain as a Methuen Paperbackoriginal in 1988 byMethuen Drama,Michelin House,81 Fulham Road,London SW36RBin association with The Royal Court Theatre,Sloane Square,London SW1  \nThis edition reprinted with revisions in 1989Reprinted 1990(twice)  \nCopyright 1988,1989by Timberlake Wertenbaker basedon thenovel  \nThe Playmaker by Thomas Keneally 1987 The Serpentine Publishing Company Pty,published by Hodder and Stoughton and Sceptre.  \n# CAUTION\n\nThis play is fully protected by copyright.Any enquiries concerning the rights for professionalor amateur stage production should be addressed to Michael Imison Playwrights,  \n28 Almeida Street,London N11TD.In the United States:POBox 1006,Ansonia Station,New York NY10023,USA.  \nIn memory of John Price  \n1  \nTwenty per cent of the children in a certain elementary school were reported to their teachersas showing unusual potential for intellectual growth.The names of these twenty per cent ofthe children were drawn by means of a table of random numbers,which is to say that thenames were drawn out of a hat.Eight months later these unusual or'magic'children showedsignificantly greater gains in IQ than did the remaining children who had not been singled outfor the teachers'attention.The change in the teachers'expectations regarding the intellectualperformance of these allegedly‘special'chldren had led to an actual change in the  \nintellectual perfonnance of these randomly selected children...who were also described asmore interesting,as showing greater intellectual curiosity and as happier.R.Rosenthal&L.Jacobsen Pygmalionin the Classroom","cbCaibcu45Jigvct","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibcu45Jigvct","pdf",3567642,"English","# Setting and premise\n## Australia 1789 and the first play\n## Production conditions and stakes\n# Staging, recognition, and quotes\n## Royal Court Theatre premiere and awards\n# Theoretical background excerpt\n## Rosenthal and Jacobsen: Pygmalion in the Classroom","[{\"question\":\"What is the premise of Our Country's Good?\",\"answer\":\"The story follows a young married lieutenant directing rehearsals for the first play to be staged in Australia in 1789, despite severe shortages of text and an inexperienced, constrained cast.\"},{\"question\":\"What makes the production conditions especially difficult?\",\"answer\":\"There are only two copies of the script, many convicts are 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