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Unlike any other series of study guides the Page to Stage series offers insightful and authoritative introductions by well-known theatre professionals to classic plays. For Our Country's Good, Max Stafford-Clark brings his own involvement in the play's history, and his unrivalled experience as the director of the original Royal Court production, to present an in-depth study of how it actually works on stage. After an introduction about the creation of the play, the reader is conducted through its action, the historical context, its characters, and how the play was rehearsed and designed. The result is an invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. Telling the story of a production of George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer by a company of convicts in the early days of the Australian penal colony Our Country's Good has become a modern classic. No one is better suited to writing about why and how that came about than Max Stafford-Clark.
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About the Author
Max Stafford-Clark continues to be one of the most influential directors of his generation. He established Joint Stock in 1974, ran the Royal Court Theatre from 1979 to 1993, and then set up the extremely successful touring theatre company, Out of Joint, which he continues to run. He is the author of Letters to George, a rehearsal journal about his own staging of The Recruiting Officer, performed alongside the original production of Our Country's Good with the same cast. Maeve McKeown is the former Administrator and Education Manager of Out of Joint.
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