The human animal – animal or human? Are the brutal military officers in Our Country’s Good any less animal, or more human, than the criminal convicts they beat, starve, and humiliate? The play, based on the true story of the founding of Sydney, Australia as a penal colony 1788, pits the sadistic Major Robbie Ross against Admiral Arthur Phillip and Lieutenant Ralph Clark, who together help the convicts transcend their bestial existence by doing . . . a play. At turns dramatic and comic, Our Country’s Goodis finally an impassioned expression of the redemptive power of art.
Role Played: Ketch Freeman
Directed by Roger Bechtel
Produced by the Carleton College Players
Performed May 4TH, 5TH, 6TH, 7TH, 11TH, 12TH and 13TH, 2017