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Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright.
Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz. She attended schools in Europe and the US before settling permanently in London. Having been the Royal Court Theatre's writer-in-residence in 1985, she had her most successful play, Our Country's Good , (based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally) performed there in 1988 [1]. She is the author of many plays for the stage and for radio, and has translated works by authors including Jean Anouilh, Racine, Sophocles, and Euripides
Honours and Awards more less
1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award for The Grace of Mary Traverse
1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for Our Country's Good
1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play for Our Country's Good
1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award for The Love of the Nightingale
1990 Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play (New York) Our Country's Good
1991 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best West End Play (London) Three Birds Alighting on a Field
1992 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Three Birds Alighting on a Field
1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) Three Birds Alighting on a Field
This Is No Place for Tallulah Bankhead , 1978
The Third , 1980
Second Sentence , 1980
Case to Answer , 1980
Breaking Through , 1980
New Anatomies , 1981
Inside Out , 1982
Home Leave , 1982
Abel’s Sister , 1984
The Grace of Mary Traverse , 1985
Our Country's Good , 1988
The Love of the Nightingale , 1989
Three Birds Alighting on a Field , 1992
The Break of Day , 1995
After Darwin , 1998
Dianeira 1999
The Ash Girl (adaptation of "Cinderella"), 2000
Credible Witness , 2001
Galileo's Daughter , 2004
Divine Intervention , 2006
Jen?fa by Gabriela Preissova (adaptation), 2007
Arden City (For the National Theatre Connections program) 2008
The Line , 2009
What is the custom of your grief? (radio)
Translation
Mephisto by Ariane Mnouchkine (1986)
Leocadia by Jean Anouilh (1987)
False Admissions; Successful Strategies; La Dispute: Three Plays by Marivaux (1989)
The Thebans by Sophocles (1992)
Filumena by Eduardo de Filippo (1998)
Hippolytus by Euripides (2009)
Phedre by Jean Racine (2009)
Publications: Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays Vols 1, 2, (Faber and Faber)Jenufa (Faber and Faber 2007)The Line (Faber and Faber 2009)
Total Books: 26