When Where Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Center Theatre Contact Reid Edelman, Theatre Director, 468-3172 Sponsor Mendocino College Cost $15/general; $12/students & seniors - available at Mendocino Bookstore 468-5940, Mendocino College Bookstore 468-3058 and at the door Website click here

Our Country's Good

Based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally, this play tells the true story of a group of British convicts and their guards, transported to Australia in 1788. Faced with brutal conditions and shattered spirits, one marine lieutenant embarks on the unlikely endeavor of producing a play. His actors are the convicts. Few of them can read, let alone act. As one critic wrote, the play is "a triumph...a tribute to the transforming power of drama." The play includes mature content.

Recommended for ages 13 and older with parental discretion advised.