reading of 'Our Country's Good'
In what has become an annual tradition, the English department will present a staged reading by Yale faculty and students on Wednesday, Feb. 9.
This year's offering is "Our Country's Good," the 1988 play by Timberlake Wertenbaker based on Thomas Keneally's novel "The Playmaker." The staged reading will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St., and is free and open to the public.
The play -- which was chosen to complement the British Art Center's current exhibit of 18th-century South Seas paintings by William Hodges -- is set in Sydney Cove in 1788-1789. It is the story of a group of convicts who are rehearsing, under the watchful eyes of their management officers, the first Australian performance of "The Recruiting Officer," a Restoration comedy by George Farquhar that had been popular in London.
The cast will include faculty and students from the Departments of English and Comparative Literature and the Theater Studies Program.
The featured faculty will be Marie Borroff, David Bromwich, James Kearney, Traugott Lawler, Stefanie Markovits and Christopher Miller, all from the Department of English; and Toni Dorfman from the Theater Studies Program. The other performers will be Lina Perkins Wilder, a graduate student in English, and Peter Dettmann '05, David Friedlander '05, Daniel Hammond '05, Aaron Lambert '06 and Stefano Theodoli-Braschi '07.
The reading is directed by Murray Biggs, associate professor (adjunct) of English and theater studies.
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