''Jefferson's Garden'' is a 2015 play by

Timberlake Wertenbaker Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the Royal Court, the Royal Shakespeare Company and others. She has been described in ''The Washington Post'' as "the doyenne of po ...

. It premiered at the

Watford Palace Theatre Watford Palace Theatre, opened in 1908, is an Edwardian Grade II listed building in Watford, Hertfordshire. The 600-seat theatre on Clarendon Road was refurbished in 2004. It houses its own rehearsal room, wardrobe, cafe and bar. History The ...

from 5 to 21 February 2015, with Jefferson played by William Hope. It begins in the 1750s, but is centred on the period from 1776 to the early 1790s, covering the

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which Am ...

and its aftermath. It is named after

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (, 1743July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the United States Declaration of Indepe ...

's gardens at

Monticello Monticello ( ) was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting l ...

and contrasts his part in writing the

American Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the Second Continen ...

with the continuation of slavery in the American colonies and on Jefferson's lands after independence.

External links

*Peter Aspden
"Timberlate Wertenbaker on 'Jefferson's Garden'"
''Financial Times'', 30 January 2015 *http://www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk/page/jeffersons-garden#-About * Michael Billington
"Jefferson’s Garden review – Timberlake Wertenbaker’s American tragedy"
''The Guardian'', 10 February 2015 * Mark Lawson
"Timberlake Wertenbaker: ‘You can’t get a straightforward history of America’"
''The Guardian'', 7 February 2015. category:Plays based on real people category:British plays category:Plays set in the United States category:2015 plays Cultural depictions of Thomas Jefferson category:Plays about the American Revolution Plays about American slavery category:Plays set in the 18th century {{2010s-play-stub

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