ABSTRACT
In Our Country’s Good we saw a group of people in a situation of oppression engaging in a creative dramatic task. The play is one of the funniest and one of the most moving I have seen. One of its characteristics is its balance of the tragic and the comic. It illustrates that attention to pain and attention to laughter are inherent in the processes of both survival and healing. It illustrates integration, where the apparently disparate parts of an individual or a community can begin to relate to one another.
