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Timberlake Wertenbaker

 
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Timberlake Wertenbaker
Born Timberlake Wertenbaker
1951
Occupation Playwright
Nationality United Kingdom
Genres Modern theatre, original works and translations

Timberlake Wertenbaker (born 1951) is a British playwright.

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Biography

Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque Country of France near Saint-Jean-de-Luz.[1] 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[2], 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[3]

Honours and awards

  • 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

Work

  • 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
  • Jenůfa by Gabriela Preissova (adaptation), 2007
  • Arden City (For the National Theatre Connections program) 2008
  • The Line, 2009

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)

References

  1. ^ http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1250483,00.html
  2. ^ The Thebans by Sophocles, Wertenbaker, Faber, 1992 ISBN 9780571167111
  3. ^ http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth138

External links

{Artistic adviser to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]



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