Product Code: O42000
Full-length Play
Recommended For:
High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
Cast Size: 7m., 5w., with doubling. Variations possible.
Approx. Run Time: 135 min.
In 1789 in an Australian penal colony, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments--brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor.
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