The GWT - Our Countrys Good - Season 2017

Coming Up

<br />in <b><a href=PhotoPage.php?PlayNum=674 title=Click for more information on Pygmalion>Pygmalion</a></b>

9th to 16th October 2021
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw

<br />in <b><a href=PhotoPage.php?PlayNum=675 title=Click for more information on Birdsong>Birdsong</a></b>

6th to 13th November 2021
Birdsong
by Sebastien Faulks adpated by Rachel Wagstaff

<br />in <b><a href=PhotoPage.php?PlayNum=676 title=Click for more information on A Christmas Carol>A Christmas Carol</a></b>

4th to 11th December 2021
A Christmas Carol
by Patrick Barlow adpated from the story by Charles Dickens

<br />in <b><a href=PhotoPage.php?PlayNum=677 title=Click for more information on Hedda Gabler>Hedda Gabler</a></b>

8th to 15th January 2022
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen in a new version by Patrick Marber

<br />in <b><a href=PhotoPage.php?PlayNum=678 title=Click for more information on Present Laughter>Present Laughter</a></b>

5th to 12th February 2022
Present Laughter
by Noël Coward

News

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From the Archive

10 Years Ago

The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare
23rd to 30th April 2011
20 Years Ago

Measure For Measure
by William Shakespeare
21st to 28th April 2001
30 Years Ago

When We Are Married
by J B Priestley
13th to 20th April 1991
40 Years Ago

And A Nightingale Sang
by C P Taylor
18th to 25th April 1981
50 Years Ago

Macrunes Guevara
by John Spurling
1st to 8th May 1971
60 Years Ago

Romanoff And Juliet
by Peter Ustinov
6th to 13th May 1961
70 Years Ago

The Shewing-Up Of Blanco Posnet
by George Bernard Shaw
Throughout 1951

Our Countrys Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker Based on the novel "The Playmaker" by Thomas Keneally
Directed by Susanna Hook
6th to 8th April 2017
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Finn McGee and Aliyah Knight

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Emily Holland , Francis Cawley and Monica Fromings

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Cameron Boyd

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Harry Higginson and Sam Head

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Aliyah Knight , Emily Holland and Monica Fromings

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Jessica Baldwin , Monica Fromings and Emily Holland

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April Bennett

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Blue Rashbrook

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Jade Thomson, April Bennett, Annabel Goldberg , Sam Head and Harry Higginson

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Emily Holland, Annie McKenzie, Monica Fromings , Jessica Baldwin and Sam Head

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Jessica Baldwin

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Maddie Cowpland, Emily Holland, Monica Fromings, Aliyah Knight, Annie McKenzie , Jessica Baldwin and Cameron Boyd

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Emily Holland

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Monica Fromings and Emily Holland

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Sam Head and Finn McGee

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Maddie Cowpland and Harry Higginson

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Maddie Cowpland, Aliyah Knight, Monica Fromings, Emily Holland, Jessica Baldwin, Cameron Boyd , Annie McKenzie and Finn McGee

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Aliyah Knight

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Harry Higginson, Blue Rashbrook , Sam Head and Jessica Goodwin

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Monica Fromings, Emily Holland , Finn McGee and Aliyah Knight

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Aliyah Knight and Finn McGee

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Aliyah Knight and Harry Higginson

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Jessica Baldwin

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Aliyah Knight, Cameron Boyd , Finn McGee and Blue Rashbrook

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Annabel Goldberg and April Bennett

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Monica Fromings, Maddie Cowpland, Emily Holland, Sam Head, Blue Rashbrook, Francis Cawley, Cameron Boyd, Finn McGee, Aliyah Knight , Annie McKenzie and Jessica Baldwin

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Sam Head and Blue Rashbrook

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Emily Holland , Luke Walden and Jessica Baldwin

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Emily Holland, Annie McKenzie, Luke Walden , Monica Fromings and Sam Head

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Jessica Goodwin

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Maddie Cowpland

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Luke Walden

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Annabel Goldberg, Sam Head , Harry Higginson and Blue Rashbrook

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Luke Walden

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Cast
Officers
Captain Arthur Phillip	Jessica Goodwin
Major Robbie Ross	Luke Walden
Captain David Collins	Jade Thomson
Captain Watkin Tench	Blue Rashbrook
Captain Jemmy Campbell	Finn McGee
Reverend Johnson	Harry Higginson
Lieutenant George Johnston	April Bennett
Lieutenant Will Dawes	Lilly Potter
Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark	Sam Head
Second Lieutenant William Faddy	Annabel Goldberg
Midshipman Harry Brewer	Harry Higginson
Convicts
John Arscott	Francis Cawley
Black Ceaser	Blue Rashbrook
Ketch Freeman	Finn McGee
Robert Sideway	Jessica Baldwin
John Wisehammer	Cameron Boyd
Mary Brenham	Emily Holland
Dabby Bryant	Monica Fromings
Liz Morden	Aliyah Knight
Duckling Smith	Maddie Cowpland
Meg Long	Annie McKenzie
Aboriginal Australian	April Bennett
Young Aboriginal Australian	Annabel Goldberg

Crew
Stage Manager	Ciara O’Hare
Set Design	Owen Kerry
Build Project Manager	Dave Kerry
Wardrobe & Costume Design	Rachel Stockwell
Lighting	Simon Bodenham
Lighting	Colin Goldberg
Production Electrician	Colin Goldberg
Sound Design	Rachel Goldberg
Sound Operation	Rachel Goldberg
Assistant Stage Manager	Amber Barnes
Youth Group Assistant	Sue Higginson
Youth Group Assistant	Amber Barnes

	Thu 6th Apr	Fri 7th Apr	Sat 8th Apr
FoH	Maurice Tripp	Viv Cleary	Lesley Robins
Bar	Tracy Higley	Keith Dunn	John Turnbull
Bar	Claire Dingley	John Young	Colin Hill