The 1987 play, Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, revolves around the story of 18th-century Australian convicts attempting to put on Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer. Wertenbaker's play is based on a novel by Thomas Keneally.
Their programme combines new plays by new playwrights with "Establishing the Future by Igniting the Past" through their Second Look programme of work un-revived since the 1980s/'90s and Playwright Presents, in which well known playwrights such as Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for Our Country's Good
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He and the convicts' experiences were later the subject of a nove, The Playmaker, by Thomas Keneally, and a play, Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Others play performed by St Julian's School also include Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind, Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, as well as a Portuguese production of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.
Winkleman's stage career includes a spell at the Royal Shakespeare Company where she played Veronique in Laurence Boswell's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and a summer in Bath with the Peter Hall Company playing a variety of roles including Archangela in Gallileo's Daughter, a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Violet in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman and Charlotte in Don Juan directed by Thea Sharrock.