Green River Drama Department
The Green River drama program presents contemporary and original dramatic works. Over the years, faculty, professional guest directors and student casts and crews have presented variations on Shakespeare, Broadway musicals and Northwest premiers. By registering for Green River's drama classes you can audition and proceed through the selection process for cast roles and crew positions. This experience provides students with the chance to participate in all aspects of producing a high quality theatre production.
Upcoming Shows Will Be Posted Here:
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
In June 1789 in the penal colony that was later to become the city of Sydney, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who populate this distant Australian prison camp. Few of them can read, let alone act, and the play is being produced against a background of food shortages and barbaric punishments--brilliantly juxtaposed against the civilizing influence of theatrical endeavor. The "hangman," himself a convict, has been recruited along with a woman, wrongfully accused of stealing. Even as the play is being rehearsed, he measures her for a noose. Despite powerful and disturbing scenes, such as this, a London critic suggests "It's far from grim. Actually it's mostly funny!" "All people tend to become what society says they are! In performance the convicts challenge their definition." (The Times, London) The Guardian critic writes "Our Country's Good is a triumph...a tribute to the transforming power of drama...It is heartening to find someone standing up for theatre's unique spititual power." The Telegraph critic sums up, "In the shared delight of her convict cast in the production of the play, [Wertenbaker] suggests, that turns a prison camp into a country."
Our dates of performance are March 8, 9, 15 & 16, 2024.
Prices are Free for Green River students
$5.00 for other students and Senior Citizens
$7.00 for general admission.