Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Timberlake Wertenbaker grew up in the Basque country and lives in London. She is one of the UK’s leading playwrights and her work is performed worldwide. She is the recipient of numerous awards including an Olivier Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for Our Country's Good and a Writers' Guild Award for Three Birds Alighting on a Field. Jefferson’s Garden won the 2016 Writer’s Guild Award for Best Play and opened in Washington in January 2018. Other plays include: Winter Hill, My Father, Odysseus, Magna Carta Plays, We Sell Right, Walking the Tightrope, The Ant and the Cicada, The Love of the Nightingale, Our Ajax, The Line, Galileo’s Daughter, Credible Witness, The Break of the Day, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Abel’s Sister, The Ash Girl and After Darwin.
Translations include: Britannicus, Antigone, Elektra, Hecuba, Wild Orchids, Jenůfa, The Thebans and Mephisto.
Timberlake is currently working on a new commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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After Darwin
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, DramaAfter Darwin
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m, 2any gender (adult)
It's 1831 and the naturalist Charles Darwin is to travel with Robert FitzRoy into uncharted waters off the coast of South America aboard The Beagle. So far, so factual. But for Millie, Ian and Tom, getting to grips with a 1998 stage version of events...
Contained in the volume "Wertenbaker Plays 2" which also includes The Break of Day, Credible Witness, The Ash Girl, and Dianeira.
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Credible Witness
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, DramaCredible Witness
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 8m
A Macedonian woman arrives in London'seeking her son Alexander who claimed political refuge three years earlier. Sent to a detention centre, she meets other refugees, including a Somalian woman and a Tamil doctor. In juxtaposed scenes we see Alexande…
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New Anatomies
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, DramaNew Anatomies
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w
" An ambitious drama. Ms Wertenbaker's writing shows remarkable range ... " - Time Out
Timberlake Wertenbaker's second play for the Women's Theatre Group, first seen at the Edinburgh Festival, considers women trapped in the "go…
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After Darwin
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, Drama
After Darwin
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 3m, 2any gender (adult)
Credible Witness
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, Drama
Credible Witness
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 8m
Jefferson's Garden
Timberlake Wertenbaker
New Anatomies
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Full-Length Play, Drama
New Anatomies
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w
