PERFORMING ARTS &
EXHIBITS
JANUARY 2013
Our Country’s Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker
24-26
January
19:30
International
School of Luxembourg (ISL)
36,
boulevard Pierre Dupong
L-1430
Luxembourg (Merl)
Our Country's Good is a 1988 play
written by British playwright, Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from the Thomas
Keneally novel, The Playmaker. The
story concerns a group of Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New
South Wales, in the 1780s, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer. The
play was first staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1988. It ran on
Broadway in 1991 and won major awards on both sides of the Atlantic. [copied with minor revisions from Wikipedia]
In the 1780s, convicts
and Royal Marines were sent to Australia as part of the first penal colony. The
play shows the class system in the convict camp and discusses themes such as
sexuality, punishment, the Georgian judicial system and the idea that that it
is possible for “theatre to be a humanizing force.” [copied with minor revisions from Wikipedia]
The play is performed
by the ISL Upper School students (some of the language has been toned down,
given the audience and age of the performers).
Contact the ISL for
information on tickets.
You also can watch the
play through live stream (24 & 26 January only).
You can read more about this play through
Internet search.
Anaconda World
25-27
January
Fri:
14:00-22:00
Sat & Sun: 10:00-20:00
LuxExpo
10,
circuit de la Foire Internationale
L-1347
Lux (Kirchberg)
Live reptile and amphibian exhibit with turtles,
snakes, lizards, insects and other animals—some quite rare. You can see their
highly-acclaimed “Tom and Jerry,” the live two-headed turtle (this is not a
hoax). If you are brave, you can even have your photograph taken with a giant
snake.
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