Our Country's Good, Lyric Hammersmith review - lively but patchy revival

by Helen Hawkins

Timberlake Wertenbaker's updated version takes particular aim at colonialism The latest Greatest Hit to land at the Lyric is Timberlake Wertenbaker's 1988 award-winning play about a performance of Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer by British convicts in a New South Wales penal colony.