Friday 23 September 2022

Friday Five: Our Cross-Stitch’s Good

Further to the previous post about cross-stitch quotes from Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, here are some more words of the text picked out in the colours of the local birdlife.

Said by Watkin Tench (played by Gaurav Pant) in the colours of a crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans)
Spoken by John Arscott (played by Paul Sweeney) in the colours of the Eastern ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus)

Said by Ketch Freeman (Played by Maurice Downing) in the colours of a Gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum)

Said by 2nd Lt Ralph Clark (played by Callum Wilson) in the colours of an Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius

Said originally by George Farquhar in The Recruiting Officer, and frequently by director Karen Vickery in rehearsals, in the colours of a King parrot (Alisterus scapularis)