Timberlake Wertenbaker is currently working on new commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and for Shared Experience.
Her work is licensed and performed worldwide. Her credits include:
THEATRE
JEFFERSON’S GARDEN
Ford’s Theatre Washington D.C, US Premiere 2018
Watford Palace Theatre, World Premiere 2016
Dir: Brigid Larmour
Winner 2016 WGGB Award for Best Play
WINTER HILL 2017
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Dir: Elizabeth Newman
MY FATHER, ODYSSEUS 2016
The Unicorn Theatre
Dir: Purni Morell
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD 2015
National Theatre, London
Dir: Nadia Fall
The play is frequently produced in the UK and internationally
MAGNA CARTA PLAYS: WE SELL RIGHT 2015
Salisbury Playhouse
Dir: Gareth Machin
WALKING THE TIGHTROPE: SHAMPOO 2015
Offstage & Underbelly Productions, in Association with Theatre Uncut
Dir: Cressida Brown
THE ANT AND THE CICADA (RSC) 2014
Midsummer Madness
Dir: Erica Whyman
OUR AJAX (Southwark Playhouse / Natural Perspective) 2013
Dir: David Mercatali
Original play, inspired by the Sophocles play
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD (Out Of Joint)
Dir: Max Stafford-Clark
UK Tour & St James Theatre, London – 2013
US Tour – 2014
ANTIGONE (The Southwark Playhouse) 2011
Dir: Tom Littler
THE LINE (The Arcola Theatre) 2009
Dir: Matthew Lloyd
JENUFA (The Arcola Theatre) 2007
Dir: Irena Brown
GALILEO’S DAUGHTER (Theatre Royal, Bath) 2004
Dir: Sir Peter Hall
CREDIBLE WITNESS (Royal Court Theatre) 2001
Dir: Sacha Wares
ASH GIRL (Birmingham Rep) 2000
Dir: Lucy Bailey
(Adaptation of Cinderella)
AFTER DARWIN (Hampstead Theatre) 1998
Dir: Lindsay Posner
THE BREAK OF THE DAY (Royal Court/Out of Joint tour) 1995
Dir: Max Stafford-Clark
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD (Broadway) 1990
Dir: Mark Lamos
Winner: New York Drama Critics Award for best foreign play
THREE BIRDS ALIGHTING ON A FIELD (Royal Court Theatre) 1991
Dir: Max Stafford-Clarke
Winner: Writers Guild Award
Winner: Susan Smith Blackburn prize
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE (RSC) 1988
Dir: Garry Hines
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD (Royal Court Theatre) 1985
Dir: Max Stafford-Clarke
Winner: Olivier Award Play of the Year
THE GRACE OF MARY TRAVERSE (Royal Court Theatre) 1985
Dir: Danny Boyle
TRANSLATIONS
ELEKTRA (ACT, San Francisco)
After Sophocles
Dir: Carey Perloff
Starring Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis
BRITANNICUS (Wilton’s Music Hall)
After Jean Racine
Dir: Irina Brown
PHEDRE (Shakespeare Festival, Stratford Ontario)
After Jean Racine
Dir: Carey Perloff
WILD ORCHIDS (Chichester Festival Theatre)
After Anoulih
Dir: Ed Kemp
FILUMENA (Piccadilly Theatre, West End) 1998/99
After De Filippo
Dir: Peter Hall
HECUBA (ACT Productions San Francisco)
After Euripides
Dir: Carey Perloff
THE THEBANS (RSC)
After Sophocles
Dir: Adrian Noble
MEPHISTO (RSC)
After Ariane Mnouchkine
Dir: Adrian Noble
FALSE ADMISSIONS (Lyric, Hammersmith) 1983
& SUCCESSSFUL STRATEGIES
After Marivaux
Dir: Mike Alfreds
RADIO
REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
Adapted from the books by Marcel Proust
ELENA FERRANTE SERIES (BBC Radio)
Adapted from the books by Elena Ferrante
WAR & PEACE (BBC Radio)
Adapted from the book by Leo Tolstoy
THE MEMORY OF GOLD (Unique Production for BBC Radio 3)
A drama inspired by the Wagner opera.
POSSESSION (BBC Woman’s Hour) Dramatised of the A. S Byatt novel
SCENES OF SEDUCTION
Dir: Ned Chaillet
NEW ANATOMIES
WHAT IS THE CUSTOM OF YOUR GRIEF (Fact To Fiction)
LA DISPUTE (Marivaux Translation)
PELLEAS AND MELISANDE (Maeterlinck Translation)
MADAME PARADIS
FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON (part of the Better Than Sex Series)
DIANEIRA
LIBRETTI
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE (Perth Festival) 2007
Staged at The Sydney Opera House 2011
TV/FILM
THE HIVE
Original serial development
BBC
THE CHILDREN
Adapted from Edith Wharton’s novel
Starring Kim Novak & Ben Kingsley
DO NOT DISTURB
Original Screenplay
BBC Screen 2
Starring Frances Barber
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD
Screenplay
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