While Caryl Churchill is undoubtedly the best-known female playwright in British ­theatre, the highest-profile single play by a woman is probably Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1988 drama Our Country’s Good. An A-level set text and (because of its large cast and message about seeking the best in people) frequent choice for school production, it is regularly professionally staged and now receives British theatre’s highest accolade of a National Theatre revival as part of new artistic director Rufus Norris’ attempt to redress what was seen by some as a bias towards male dramatists under previous regimes.Although adaptations of novels have now entered the theatrical mainstream, Our Country’s Good was relatively unusual at the time in using contemporary fiction as