Holy Cross Theatre Department Presents Our Country's Good

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross theatre department will present Our Country’s Good from Thursday, March 25 through Saturday, March 27, and from Thursday, April 1 through Saturday, April 3 in Fenwick Theatre. Performances are nightly at 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 for members of the Holy Cross community and $10 for general admission. They may be obtained by calling the box office at 508-793-2496.

Eighteenth-century Australia was truly the land down under. Britain transported her convicts to this colony, populating an entire country with the underclass and their jailers. In Temberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation of the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (author of Schindler's List), a humanistic governor permits a group of exiles to mount a comedy of manners that becomes an emblem of their better selves, oppressed by their luckless circumstances. Baron Kelly directs this highly acclaimed drama.

Baron Kelly is the W.E.B. DuBois Fellow in the theatre department at Holy Cross. He is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and holds a Ph.D. in theatre history, criticism, literature and theory from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has performed internationally and in numerous productions on Broadway. The host of the Emmy-winning PBS series, Cultural Horizons, his television credits also include Frasier, Law and Order, and Homicide. Kelly will be seen in lead roles in Sergio Arau’s A Day Without A Mexican starring Yareli Arizmendi and Guren Hole’s Nobody American, due out this summer.