Timberlake Wertenbaker

ACT ONEscene oneThe drawing room of a house in the City of London during the late eighteenth century, mary traverse sits elegantly, facing an empty chair. She talks to the chair with animation. giles traverse stands behind and away from her.mary traverse: Nature, my lord. (Pause.) It was here all...

Preface In the summer of 1988, I v/ent to HMP Wormwood Scrubs with the actors of Our Country's Good, the director Max Stafford-Clark and Philip Howard, the assistant director. We went to see a performance of Howard Barker's The Love of a Good Man, performed by long-term prisoners, that is,...