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Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 2:

Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 2: "After Darwin", "Credible Witness", "The Ash Girl", "Dianeira" v. 2 (Contemporary classics)

by TimberlakeWertenbaker (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This second collection of Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays contains her work from 1995 to 2001. Diameira is published here for the first time. The collection also includes The Break of Day, After Darwin, Credible Witness and The Ash Girl, and is introduced by the author.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 04 Mar 2002
ISBN 10: 0571212530
ISBN 13: 9780571212538
Book Overview: Timberlake Wertenbaker Plays 2 includes Diameira, The Break of Day, After Darwin, Credible Witness and The Ash Girl.

Media Reviews
'A testament to Wertenbaker's considerable talent and daring'. What's On After Darwin: 'The richest, most absorbing piece that the author has yet written'. The Times Credible Witness: 'The most moving, the most compassionate play'. Financial Times The Ash Girl: 'Lyrical and thought-provoking'. Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA, London, 1982), Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1984), The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court), which won the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985, Our Country's Good (Royal Court and Broadway), winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991, The Love of the Nightingale (RSC's Other Place), which won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court), which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Writers' Guild Award and London Critics' Circle Award in 1992, The Break of Day (Out of Joint production, Royal Court and tour, 1995), After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre, 1998), The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep, 2000), Credible Witness (Royal Court, 2001), Galileo's Daughter (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2004), Arden City (NT Connections, 2008) and The Line (Arcola Theatre, 2009). She has written the screenplay of The Children, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, and a BBC2 film entitled Do Not Disturb. Translations and adaptations include Marivaux's La Dispute, Jean Anouilh's Leocadia, Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande for BBC Radio, Ariane Mnouchkine's Mephisto, adapted for the RSC in 1986, Sophocles's The Theban Plays (RSC, 1991), Euripides' Hecuba (ACT, San Francisco, 1995; BBC Radio 3, 2001) and Hippolytus (Riverside Studios, 2009), Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly Theatre, 1998), Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi, Gabriela Preissova's Jenufa (Arcola Theatre, 2008) and Racine's Brittanicus (Wilton's Music Hall, 2011).