Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Clare Bayley, co-director of ICE’s Master’s in Writing for Performance, was in conversation with Timberlake Wertenbaker, one of the UK’s leading playwrights in this free Zoom event on Thursday, 24 April, 2025, 7-8pm, GMT.
Timberlake’s work is performed worldwide and she is the recipient of numerous awards including an Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for Our Country’s Good. Three Birds Alighting on a Field won a Writers’ Guild Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize,. Jefferson’s Garden won the 2016 Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play.
Her translation of Little Brother by Amets Arzallus Antia and Ibrahima Balde won a Pen Translation Award. Timberlake has also undertaken many adaptations for radio including Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Her adaptation of Little Brother will be at Jermyn Street Theatre in London from 15 May.
Watch the recording here.
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