By Tamar Honig

The year is 1787. The location is the deck of a dark convict ship bound for a new penal colony in South Wales, Australia. So begins Our Country’s Good, the outstanding play put on by talented students here at BHS on November 16, 17, and 18. This play follows the story of a group of Royal Marines and convicts who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer. The governor of the new colony in Australia names Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark the director of the play. Ralph struggles to help the convicts learn their lines and become their characters, and his task proves even more difficult as one actor is sentenced to be hanged and the play must be rehearsed with half the cast in chains. Various love stories are threaded into the plot, and heated discussions of theater, punishment, criminality, and morality are strewn throughout the play. Despite the challenges encountered by Ralph and the other characters, the show must go on, and Our Country’s Good concludes as the premiere of The Recruiting Officer begins. Continue reading ““Our Country’s Good,” but the BHS Cast and Crew are Incredible”