For the play's power is mirrored in the rich, varied life of this primitive land, and, not least, in the convict and actress Mary Brenham. As felons, perjurers, thieves, and whores rehearse, their playmaker, Ralph Clark, is derided by authority. Ralph Clark, sadistic Major Robert Ross (Royal Marines officer), and Midshipman Harry Brewer have a curious effect on the goings-on of the new Australian colony. Governor Arthur Phillip presides over the colony, where 1st Lt. In 1789 in Sydney Cove, the remotest penal colony of the British Empire, a group of convicts and one of their captors unite to stage a play. The Playmaker is a novel based in Australia written by the Australian author Thomas Keneally.
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