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Timberlake Wertenbaker

April 2024

  • Head shots of Joanna Scanlan, Stella Kanu and Gemma Arterton

    Joanna Scanlan among actors backing gender equality push in theatre

    Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequality

November 2023

  • Crash, bang, wallop … The Mongol Khan.

    The Mongol Khan review – a spectacular, swashbuckling tale of succession

    A colossal cast of singers, dancers, acrobats and contortionists take your breath away in this epic and moving story of betrayal and parental sacrifice

May 2023

  • Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in The Motive and the Cue.

    The week in theatre: The Motive and the Cue; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction; Jules et Jim; Supernova – review

    Sam Mendes reignites Gielgud and Burton’s Broadway Hamlet; a climate crisis play is powered by bikes (and eco-shaming); Timberlake Wertenbaker has fun with Jules et Jim; and Rhiannon Neads hits escape velocity

April 2023

  • Patricia Allison, Alex Mugnaioni and Samuel Collings in Jules and Jim.

    Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut

    While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film

June 2022

  • Sirine Saba, Nathaniel Curtis, and Nigel Barrett in Britannicus.

    The week in theatre: Britannicus; Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera); The Haunting of Susan A

  • William Robinson as Nero in Britannicus

    Britannicus review – political drama is deadly serious but full of sass

December 2021

  • Mine’s a play, please … the King’s Head theatre pub.

    King’s Head theatre toasts Victoria Wood and Tom Stoppard in season of rare plays

    Dramas by Bryony Lavery, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Stephen Jeffreys also feature in readings to mark the venue’s 50th birthday

November 2020

  • Olivia Williams (Hypsipyle) in ‘15 Heroines - The Labyrinth’ at Jermyn Street Theatre 5. Photography by Marc Brenner

    Lockdown culture
    15 Heroines: The Labyrinth review – defiant women rise up from the myths

    These bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology

July 2020

  • ‘Love at first listen’ ... the Beethoven monument in Bonn, Germany, given a timely face mask.

    'The nearest to God we get': stars pick the Beethoven work they cherish

    Ali Smith does an opus a month, Tony Hall saw Fidelio on Robben Island, and Lady Brenda Hale used to march to his Grosse Fuge. As the Proms celebrate Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, stars reveal a favourite work

June 2020

  • Harriet Walter as Biddy in Three Birds Alighting on a Field at the Royal Court in 1991.

    Forgotten plays
    Forgotten plays: No 2 – Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1991) by Timberlake Wertenbaker

    Our series on forgotten theatre classics continues with Wertenbaker’s stylish dissection of Thatcher-era morality

August 2019

  • Richard Brooks

    Is Rufus Norris’s run at the National drawing to a close?

    Richard Brooks
    Why the National Theatre’s artistic director may want to take stock. Plus, Breaking the Waves the opera and bank holiday Proust

March 2018

  • Tom Dawze and Sapphire Joy in Our Country’s Good at Nottingham Playhouse.

    Our Country's Good review – new voice for the silenced in Wertenbaker's penal colony drama

  • The Crucible

    The best political plays, from The Crucible to The Jungle – picked by David Hare, James Graham and more

May 2017

  • WinterHill Production Photos Bolton Octogan Credit: The Other Richard

    Winter Hill review – Wertenbaker's women take a stand through the ages

    Cathy Tyson stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s ambitious play which debates the choices politicised women face, from ancient Athens to modern Britain

April 2017

  • Timberlake Wertenbaker.

    Timberlake Wertenbaker: ‘I got to feel that nobody wanted me’

    After 10 years of self-imposed exile, the playwright is enjoying a renaissance. However, she says that female dramatists are still being disregarded

March 2016

  • A scene from Jerusalem @ Royal Court (Opening 15-07-09) Tristram Kenton 7/09 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Royal Court at 60: look back in wonder

  • Ginny Holder (Penelope) and Jeffery Kissoon (Odysseus) in My Father Odysseus

    My Father, Odysseus review – Homer's epic retold by those left behind

August 2015

  • Our Country’s Good

    Our Country’s Good review – revival of a humanist classic

    An expansive production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s penal colony play bristles with hope and indignation
  • Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker national theatre

    Our Country’s Good review – dramatic redemption from Australian hell

    The National production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s historical play shows convicts and captors alike escaping their colonial chains in shared expression
  • Cyril Nri in rehearsal for Our Country's Good

    How Cerys Matthews wrote the score for Our Country’s Good

    When Cerys Matthews was approached to compose the music for the National Theatre production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play, she knew instinctively where she would begin – by transporting the blues to Botany Bay
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