Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal. . . "Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm" (Sunday Times); "Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight" (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)
| ISBN: | 9781474261395 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 2016 |
| Author: | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
| Publisher: | Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts |