Timberlake Wertbaker

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Timberlakewertebaker (born in New York City ) is an American-British playwright who lives in London.

Life

Timberlakewertebaker's mother, Laelwertebaker, was a journalist and writer, her father Charleswertebaker was a journalist and editor of Time magazine .

Wertebaker grew up in the French Basque Country . She completed her studies in the USA . Then she started working in the theater in Greece . Since 1980 she has worked for theaters in London, lived in Brixton , wrote her own plays, translated, arranged plays for the stage or the radio and worked as a dramaturge.

In 1981 she brought the play New Anatomies about the adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt to the stage of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, which is considered to be one of the classic feminist drama of the 1980s. In 1983 she was Writer in Residence with the theater company "Shared Experience" and in the 1984/85 season at the Royal Court Theater .

In Our Country's Good , she adapted Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker for the Royal Court stage in 1988, directed by Max Stafford-Clark . In the " piece in a piece " she let the male and female protagonists of the Australian prisoners act side by side on an equal footing and brought in the situation of the Aborigines in colonialism as an additional dramatic element .

Wertbaker translated into English for the stage, television and radio pieces by Jean Anouilh , Euripides , Maeterlinck , Marivaux , Pirandello , Sophokles and Jenůfa by Gabriela Preissová , Tolstoy's War and Peace arranged for BBC Radio 4 .

Wertebaker was a Guggenheim Fellow , has received a number of awards for her pieces and was nominated for a Tony Award . In 2006 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). In 2012 ,wertebaker was a visiting professor for drama at the University of East Anglia .

She is married to the writer John Man , they have a daughter and live in north London.

Works (selection)

Many works were published by Faber & Faber , which also published two anthologies of their pieces.

  • 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 (radio)
  • The Ash Girl , 2000
  • Credible Witness , 2001
  • Galileo's Daughter , 2004
  • Scenes of Seduction , 2005 (radio)
  • Divine Intervention , 2006
  • The Love of the Nightingale , libretto for the opera by Richard Mills , premiered in Sydney in 2011
  • Jenůfa , 2007
  • Arden City , 2008
  • The Line , 2009
  • Our Ajax , 2013
  • The Ant and the Cicada , 2014
  • Jefferson's Garden , 2015

literature

  • Ann Wilson: Forgiving History and Making New Worlds: Timberlakeössbaker's Recent Drama , in: James Acheson: British and Irish drama since 1960 . Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan 1993, pp. 146-161
  • Peter Paul Schnierer: Modern English Drama and Theater Since 1945: An Introduction . Tübingen: Narr, 1997, pp. 162-166
  • Susan Carlson: Language and identity in Timberlakewertebaker's plays , in: Elaine Aston: The Cambridge companion to modern British women playwrights . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000, pp. 134-149
  • Maya E. Roth: Im / Migrations, Border-Crossings and “Willful Internationalism” in Timberlakewertebaker's “The Break of Day” , in: Marc Maufort, Franca Bellarsi (eds.): Crucible of cultures: Anglophone drama at the dawn of a new millennium . Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2003, pp. 79–90
  • Annette Pankratz: "Death is ... not": Representations of death and dying in contemporary British drama . Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2005
  • Maya E. Roth & Sara Freeman (Eds.): International dramaturgy: translation & transformations in the theater of Timberlakewertebaker . Brussels: PIE Peter Lang, 2008
  • Beate Neumeier: Women's Drama: Timberlakewertebaker , in: Merle Tönnies (Ed.): The English Drama of the Present: Categories - Developments - Model Interpretations . Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier 2010, pp. 173–192
  • Nursen Gömceli: Timberlakewertebaker and contemporary British feminist drama: feminism (s) illustrated in Timberlakewertebaker's New anatomies (1981), The grace of Mary Traverse (1985), The love of the nightingale (1988), and The break of day (1995 ) . Bethesda, Md.: Academica Press, 2010
  • Yi-chin Shih: How Timberlakewertebaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays: Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes . Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012
  • Sophie Bush: The theater of Timberlakewertebaker . London: Bloomsbury, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There are contradicting information about the personal data of Timberlakewertebaker. She was born at DNB in ​​1944, in the Italian encyclopedia Treccani in 1945, in The Oxford Guide to Plays in 1951. IMDb names February 19, 1956 as her birthday.
  2. ↑ Enid Nemy: Laelwertebaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death , obituary at NYT , March 29, 1997
  3. ^ A b c Peter Paul Schnierer: Modern English Drama and Theater since 1945 , 1997, pp. 162–166
  4. ↑ Peter Aspden: Up for the battles , in: Financial Times , January 31, 2015 p 16
  5. ↑ Annette Pankratz: "Death is ... not" , 2004, pp. 210–215
  6. ↑ Award-winning writers join UEA as UNESCO City of Literature professors , at UEA September 20, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Wertebaker, Timberlake
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City