{"id":86,"date":"2014-10-13T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2024-08-18T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T11:52:04","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/?page_id=86","title":{"rendered":"Other Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-70 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/roocgposter.jpg\" alt=\"roocgposter\" width=\"100\" height=\"142\" \/>The texts we are working from are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Our Country&#8217;s Good<\/strong>&#8221; by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Methuen Student Edition, 1995<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>The Recruiting Officer<\/strong>&#8221; by George Farquhar, edited by John Ross, New Mermaids, 2nd edition, 1991<\/li>\n<li>A key text (especially for directors) is Max Stafford-Clark&#8217;s very personal and fascinating account of the Royal Court Theatre&#8217;s preparation of both plays in 1988:&#8221;<strong>Letters to George<\/strong>&#8220;,\u00c2\u00a0Nick Hern Books, 1997<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Our Country&#8217;s Good&#8221; is based on:&#8221;<strong>The Playmaker<\/strong>&#8221; by Thomas Keneally, Sceptre, 1988<\/li>\n<li>Also of interest:&#8221;<strong>The Playmaker &#8211; Thomas Keneally: A Students Guide<\/strong>&#8220;, Donhan Books, 1999<\/li>\n<li>The key text for historical background to &#8220;Our Country&#8217;s Good&#8221; is &#8220;<strong>The Fatal Shore<\/strong>&#8221; by Robert Hughes, Harvill Press 1997, Pan Books Ltd 1988<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The texts we are working from are: &#8220;Our Country&#8217;s Good&#8221; by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Methuen Student Edition, 1995 &#8220;The Recruiting Officer&#8221; by George Farquhar, edited by John Ross, New Mermaids, 2nd edition, 1991 A key text (especially for directors) is Max &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/?page_id=86\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Other Resources<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/plays\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}