A rejigging of the textual content together with a extra genuine portrayal of the First Nation narrator Killara (Naarah) brings the story of a gaggle of English convicts transported to Australia together with their red-coated guardians to fertile life.
In between the floggings and executions, the disparate group makes an attempt to mount a manufacturing of George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer in a play inside a play that riffs round parts of Brian Friel’s Translations and the Rude Mechanicals’ Pyramus and Thisbe whereas sustaining its personal interrogation of colonialism, social injustice, cultural Philistinism and the unifying energy of theatre.
While among the performances could also be a contact overripe, it’s a welcome revival of an insightful, clever and infrequently amusing play. Are we not entertained? Indeed we’re.
Our Country’s Good is taking part in on the Lyric Hammersmith till October 5
Tickets: 020 8741 6850
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/1951331/our-countrys-good-review-lyric-hammersmith