Product Description: He suddenly looks different, less bent, less old, less broken, what a strange man. Is there some magic here? Is he a wizard? Old man . . . No that's not right. Telemachus' father left long ago to fight a war. Telemachus doesn't remember him...read more

Product Description: 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 haunting, always transformative -- of the past on the present...read more

Product Description: 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 of events includes uncovering the polarities both in and between their own lives...read more

Product Description: Millie, a director, discusses with her actors, Ian and Tom, how to interpret two famous historical figures from the nineteenth century. It's 1831. The naturalist Charles Darwin is invited to travel with Robert Fitzroy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America aboard 'The Beagle'...read more

Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country. With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal..."Wertenbaker has searched history and found in it a humanistic lesson for hard modern times: rough, sombre, undogmatic and warm" (Sunday Times); "Highly theatrical, often funny and at times dark and disturbing, it sets an infant civilization on the stage with clarity, economy and insight" (Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph)

Product Description: New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A play by the author of "The Love of the Nightingale", "The Grace of Mary Traverse" and "Three Birds Alighting on a Field".

Product Description: Cast: 6 men, 4 women, Chorus. Area Staging. In the unified brilliance of Wertenbaker's new translation, Sophocles reaches across 24 centuries and is revealed as an entirely accessible and astonishingly modern playwright! The plays are about free will, about natural law versus that of he state, about whether loyalty to family takes precedence over country, about the dangers of tyranny...read more

Product Description: A translation of this trilogy of Sophocles' plays which tell the story of Oedipus, Jocasta and Antigone. The plays deal with the ancient Greek themes of power, both mortal and godlike. The translator is a playwright herself and her work includes "Three Birds Alighting on a Field"...read more

Product Description: Art galleries and auction houses often artificially inflate the values of works of art and in doing so, they undermine the appreciation of intrinsic artistry. This is the issue that confronts the central character in this play. The playwright also wrote "Our Country's Good".

Product Description: This play combines elements from Greek mythology and the history and drama of classical Greece. The king of Athens gives his daughter Procne in marriage to the king of Thrace. Her sister Philomele sets out to find her but is seduced by Tereus who silences her by cutting out her tongue...read more

Product Description: Book by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Tired of confinement to her father's house, Mary Traverse, a young eighteenth-century woman, decides to see more of the world