Book Club: ‘The Playmaker’
Thursday 27 November 2025 18:00 to 19:00Location: |
Fellows' Room, Green Templeton College |
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David Souter will introduce The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally.
‘Lieutenant Ralph Clark has received the most bizarre of commissions. In honour of the King’s birthday, Clark is charged with staging a production of the George Farquhar comedy The Recruiting Officer. What’s more, as Clark supervises the penal colony of Sydney Cove, Australia, at the very end of the late-nineteenth-century British Empire’s rule, he must use his prisoners as the cast and production crew. Based on the lieutenant’s real diaries, The Playmaker is a work of true genius by one of the most notable names in historical fiction.’
Meetings start at 18:00 and are held in the Fellows’ Room, off the Common Room, on the first floor of the Radcliffe Observatory.
