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Britannicus

English

By (author): Timberlake Wertenbaker

Jean Racine's classic play Britannicus is a chilling study of the emergence of a monster, as Emperor Nero begins to take Rome in his grip. Timberlake Wertenbaker's translation premiered at Wilton's Music Hall, London, in October 2011.

'Anexcellent new translation.' Guardian
'Timberlake Wertenbaker's beautifully distilled adaptation . . . Exhilarating theatre.' Time Out (Critic's Choice)
'An astute, gripping evening.' Sunday Telegraph
'At once a thriller, a study of jealousy, and a treatise on power and its responsibilities.' Independent on Sunday
'Powerful.' What's on Stage
'Gripping.' The Stage

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Product Details
  • Weight: 95g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Oct 2011
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780571283972

About Timberlake Wertenbaker

Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA London 1982) Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 1984) The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court) which won the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985 Our Country's Good (Royal Court and Broadway) winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991 The Love of the Nightingale (RSC's Other Place) which won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court) which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award Writers' Guild Award and London Critics' Circle Award in 1992 The Break of Day (Out of Joint production Royal Court and tour 1995) After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre 1998) The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep 2000) Credible Witness (Royal Court 2001) Galileo's Daughter (Theatre Royal Bath 2004) Arden City (NT Connections 2008) and The Line (Arcola Theatre 2009). She has written the screenplay of The Children based on the novel by Edith Wharton and a BBC2 film entitled Do Not Disturb. Translations and adaptations include Marivaux's La Dispute Jean Anouilh's Leocadia Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande for BBC Radio Ariane Mnouchkine's Mephisto adapted for the RSC in 1986 Sophocles's The Theban Plays (RSC 1991) Euripides' Hecuba (ACT San Francisco 1995; BBC Radio 3 2001) and Hippolytus (Riverside Studios 2009) Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly Theatre 1998) Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi Gabriela Preissova's Jenufa (Arcola Theatre 2008) and Racine's Brittanicus (Wilton's Music Hall 2011).

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