Jonathan Walls and Alison Blair exchange words in Theatre Erindale's production of Our Country's Good, a play about a play set in Australia. (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Juliet (Brenna Stewart, right) whines to her nurse (Jack Morton) in Theatre Erindale's production of Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet). (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Nicholas Marinelli takes Brittany Kay for an outing during Theatre Erindale's Feb. 9-19 production of Our Country's Good, set in Australia. (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Cast members of the play within a play rehearse their scenes in Theatre Erindale's production of Our Country's Good. Pictured (l to r) are Heather Dennis, Jessica Allen and Alison Blair. (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Our Country's Good, an Australian play, recreates The Recruiting Officer, the first play ever mounted in the former British penal colony. Here, a convict is flogged as art imitates life. (Photos by Jim Smagata)
Punishment will be meted out in Theatre Erindale's production of Our Country's Good, set in 1700s Australia. The play runs Feb. 9-19, 2012. Pictured (l tor) are Nicholas Marinelli, Julio Ospina, Jonathan Walls and Michael Esposito II. (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Desdemona (Michelle Nash) barely keeps Constance from killing Iago (Olivia Lloyd, Adam Cresswell) in Theatre Erindale's production of Ann-Marie Macdonald's play. (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Mousy academic Constance Ledbelly (Olivia Lloyd) prepares a lecture on her Shakespearean research in her office in Theatre Erindale's production of Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet). (Photo by Jim Smagata)
The Capulets’ masquerade ball looks a little bit different in Constance’s dreamworld as depicted in the Theatre Erindale production of Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet). (L to R - Adam Cresswell, Michelle Nash, Jack Morton, Brenna Stewart). (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Tybalt, Romeo, and Mercutio have it out in Theatre Erindale's production of Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet) (L to R - Jack Morton, Adam Cresswell, Michelle Nash). (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Constance (Olivia Lloyd) goes over her research, dreaming Iago and Othello to life in Theatre Erindale's production of Good Night, Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet) the wacky Ann-Marie Macdonald play. (L to R - Adam Cresswell and Jack Morton). (Photo by Jim Smagata)
Fanny Squeers conceives a crush on new assistant schoolmaster Nicholas in Theatre Erindale's production of Nicholas Nickleby (l to r: Alanna Boucher, Jessica Allen, Chris White).
(Photo by Jim Smagata)
Uncle Ralph contends with his clerk Newman Noggs in Theatre Erindale's production of Nicholas Nickleby ( l to r:Jack Morton and Adam Cresswell).
(Photo by Jim Smagata)
Schoolmaster Squeers introduces the newest boys to his rules in Theatre Erindale's production of Nicholas Nickleby (l to r: Olivia Lloyd, Tanya Filipopoulos, Amelia Kurtz, Nicholas Marinelli).
(Photo by Jim Smagata)
Kate and Mrs. Nickleby are forced to take leave of Miss LaCreevy in Theatre Erindale's production of Nicholas Nickleby (l to r: Alison Blair, Amanda Piron, Kylah Thomson).
(Photo by Jim Smagata)
The Mantalinis, owners of the millinery to which Kate is sent to work, have their ups and downs. Pictured in Theatre Erindale's production are (l tor) Julio Ospina, Jake Maric, Charlotte Cattell.
(Photo by Jim Smagata)
The Crummles Family owns the theatrical troupe in which Nicholas and Smike find refuge in Theatre Erindale's production of Nicholas Nickleby ( l to r: Tanya Filipopoulos, Amelia Kurtz, Michelle Nash, Brenna Stewart, Brandon Gillespie).