Author Timberlake Wertenbaker
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Winter Hill
0 Male, 8 Female
** 10% DISCOUNT ** Timberlake Wertenbaker, author of the award-winning plays Our Country’s Good and Jefferson’s Garden questions if power can ever truly belong to the people ... Heroism is danger and risk,…
My Father, Odysseus
Large Mixed Cast
"He suddenly looks different, less bent, less old, less broken, what a strange man. Is there some magic here? Is he a wizard? Telemachus' father left long ago to fight a war Telemachus doesn't remember…
Jefferson’s Garden
5 Male, 4 Female
America, 1776 Christian is a Quaker His family came to America to live in peace But he is a young man fired up by dreams of revolution Should he defy his community and pick up a gun? Thomas Jefferson is…
Midsummer Mischief - Four Radical Plays by Women
** 10% DISCOUNT ** “Well-behaved women seldom make history” Four radical new plays by women commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their 2014 Midsummer Mischief festival The writers were…
Wertenbaker Plays One
A collection of Timberlake Wertenbaker plays which spans her work from 1984 to 1992, including "Our Country's Good", which won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 Includes New Anatomies…
Timberlake Wertenbaker - Plays Two
In this second collection of her plays, Timberlake Wertenbaker continues to explore the intellectual and emotional terrains of personal identity and social fragmentation as well as the effects - sometimes…
The Grace of Mary Traverse
5 Male, 3 Female
Mary Traverse, the pretty, carefully schooled daughter of a wealthy London merchant, chafes at her pampered existence, and hungers for knowledge and experience of the outside world Leaving her father's…
Our Country’s Good
Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award 1988 Australia 1789 A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country But with only two copies…
Oedipus Tyrannos & Oedipus at Kolonos & Antigone
"A powerfully dramatic new translation ... it is both intellectual and visceral. You are gripped by the thought and the argument ... These plays are thrillers of ideas, moral and political battlefields"…
After Darwin
5 Male, 1 Female
Charles Darwin is invited to travel aboard the "Beagle" with Robert FitzRoy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America But for Millie, Ian and Tom, getting to grips with a 1998 stage version…
The Ash Girl
Large Mixed Cast
With her mother dead and her father away, fighting his own demons, the Ash Girl lives huddled deep in the protection of the ashes in a big old house with her stepmother and two stepsisters When an invitation…
Filumena
Large Mixed Cast
One of Eduardo de Filippo's finest Neapolitan comedies in a striking new translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker ... Filumena Domenico is a former Neopolitan prostitute who has had three sons by three different…