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	Wertenbaker was born in [[New York City]] to [[Charles Wertenbaker]], a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.<ref name=guardian/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html ''New York Times'', "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997]</ref> Much of her childhood was spent in the [[French Basque Country\|Basque Country]] in the small French fishing village of [[Ciboure]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news\|last=Thorpe\|first=Vanessa\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I got to feel that nobody wanted me'\|date=29 April 2017\|access-date=14 December 2021\|quote=Grew up in the village of Ciboure in the French Basque country.}}</ref> She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre ''The Guardian'', "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004]</ref>		Wertenbaker was born in [[New York City]] to [[Charles Wertenbaker]], a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.<ref name=guardian/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html ''New York Times'', "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997]</ref> Much of her childhood was spent in the [[French Basque Country\|Basque Country]] in the small French fishing village of [[Ciboure]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news\|last=Thorpe\|first=Vanessa\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I got to feel that nobody wanted me'\|date=29 April 2017\|access-date=14 December 2021\|quote=Grew up in the village of Ciboure in the French Basque country.}}</ref> She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre ''The Guardian'', "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004]</ref>

	Wertenbaker was the resident writer for [[Shared Experience]] in 1983 and the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timberlake-wertenbaker\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker\|work=Literature Matters\|publisher=[[British Council]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313215125/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker\|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She was on the Executive Council of the [[English Stage Company]] from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001. She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at [[Georgetown University]], [[Washington D.C.]], for 2005–06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the [[Freud Museum]] in 2011. She was also the artistic director of the New Perspective Theatre Company. ~~Currently,~~ Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the [[University of East Anglia]]. ~~In addition, she is artistic adviser to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and~~ on the ~~council of the [[~~Royal Society of Literature]].		Wertenbaker was the resident writer for [[Shared Experience]] in 1983 and the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timberlake-wertenbaker\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker\|work=Literature Matters\|publisher=[[British Council]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313215125/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker\|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She was on the Executive Council of the [[English Stage Company]] from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001. She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at [[Georgetown University]], [[Washington D.C.]], for 2005–06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the [[Freud Museum]] in 2011. She was also the artistic director of the New Perspective Theatre Company. Wertenbaker was the Chair in Playwriting at the [[University of East Anglia]from 2003 to 2023]. She has also been on the Royal Society of Literature Council and was an Artistic Advisor at RADA.

	Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker's work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience.		Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker's work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience.
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	* ''Antigone'' by Sophocles (2011)		* ''Antigone'' by Sophocles (2011)
	* ''Britannicus'' by Jean Racine (2011)		* ''Britannicus'' by Jean Racine (2011)
	* ''Little brother. An odyssey to Europe'' by [[Ibrahima Balde ~~(memoirist)\|Ibrahima Balde]]~~ and Amets Arzallus Antia (2019)		* ''Little brother. An odyssey to Europe'' by [[Ibrahima Balde and Amets Arzallus Antia (Published by Scribe, 2019)
	* ''Jules and Jim,'' adapted from [[Henri-Pierre Roché]]'s novel (2023)		* ''Jules and Jim,'' adapted from [[Henri-Pierre Roché]]'s novel (2023)
	* ''[[The Mongol Khan]]'' (2023)<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/mongolia-west-end-mongol-khan-china-london-theatre-musical/ \|title=The West End's controversial new musical – that's already been shut down in China \|last=Mesure \|first=Susie \|date=18 November 2023 \|accessdate=19 November 2023 \|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph\|The Telegraph]] \|archive-url= \|archive-date=}}</ref>		* ''[[The Mongol Khan]]'' (2023)<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news \|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/mongolia-west-end-mongol-khan-china-london-theatre-musical/ \|title=The West End's controversial new musical – that's already been shut down in China \|last=Mesure \|first=Susie \|date=18 November 2023 \|accessdate=19 November 2023 \|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph\|The Telegraph]] \|archive-url= \|archive-date=}}</ref>
			"Little Brother," Adapted from Minan by Amets Arzallus and Ibrahima Balde. Jermyn Street Theatre (2025)
	== References ==		== References ==
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	Wertenbaker was born in [[New York City]] to [[Charles Wertenbaker]], a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.<ref name=guardian/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html ''New York Times'', "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997]</ref> Much of her childhood was spent in the [[French Basque Country\|Basque Country]] in the small French fishing village of [[Ciboure]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news\|last=Thorpe\|first=Vanessa\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I got to feel that nobody wanted me'\|date=29 April 2017\|access-date=14 December 2021\|quote=Grew up in the village of Ciboure in the French Basque country.}}</ref> She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre ''The Guardian'', "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004]</ref>		Wertenbaker was born in [[New York City]] to [[Charles Wertenbaker]], a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.<ref name=guardian/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html ''New York Times'', "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997]</ref> Much of her childhood was spent in the [[French Basque Country\|Basque Country]] in the small French fishing village of [[Ciboure]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news\|last=Thorpe\|first=Vanessa\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I got to feel that nobody wanted me'\|date=29 April 2017\|access-date=14 December 2021\|quote=Grew up in the village of Ciboure in the French Basque country.}}</ref> She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre ''The Guardian'', "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004]</ref>

	Wertenbaker was the resident writer for [[Shared Experience]] in 1983 and the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timberlake-wertenbaker\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker\|work=Literature Matters\|publisher=[[British Council]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313215125/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker\|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She was on the Executive Council of the [[English Stage Company]] from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001.~~{{citation needed\|date=December 2021}}~~ She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at [[Georgetown University]], [[Washington D.C.]], for 2005–06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the [[Freud Museum]] in 2011. She was also the artistic director of [[New Perspective Theatre Company]]. Currently, Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the [[University of East Anglia]]. In addition, she is artistic adviser to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and on the council of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].		Wertenbaker was the resident writer for [[Shared Experience]] in 1983 and the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timberlake-wertenbaker\|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker\|work=Literature Matters\|publisher=[[British Council]]\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313215125/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker\|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She was on the Executive Council of the [[English Stage Company]] from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001. She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at [[Georgetown University]], [[Washington D.C.]], for 2005–06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the [[Freud Museum]] in 2011. She was also the artistic director of the New Perspective Theatre Company. Currently, Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the [[University of East Anglia]]. In addition, she is artistic adviser to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and on the council of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].

	Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker's work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience.		Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker's work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience.
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	Wertenbaker was ~~made~~ a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] in ~~2006~~.<ref name=britishcouncil>[https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker ''British Council: Literature'', "Timberlake Wertenbaker"]</ref>		Wertenbaker was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2023-09-01 \|title=Wertenbaker, Timberlake \|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/timberlake-wertenbaker/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/timberlake-wertenbaker/ \|access-date=2025-06-26 \|website=Royal Society of Literature \|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=britishcouncil>[https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker ''British Council: Literature'', "Timberlake Wertenbaker"]</ref>

	== Works ==		== Works ==

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'''Timberlake Wertenbaker'''<ref>[http://orlando.cambridge.org/protected/svPeople?formname=r&person_id=wertti&subform=1 Timberlake Wertenbaker] at the Orlando Project, Cambridge University Press</ref> is a British-based playwright, screenplay writer, and translator who has written plays for the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]], the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] and others. She has been described in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as "the doyenne of political theatre of the 1980s and 1990s".<ref name=post>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/grappling-with-jeffersons-legacy-a-playwright-doesnt-like-nice-people/2018/01/24/0ff4c12e-0081-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html ''Washington Post'', "Grappling with Jefferson’s legacy: ‘A playwright doesn’t like nice people’", January 24, 2018]</ref><ref name=faber>{{cite web
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Wertenbaker's best-known work is ''[[Our Country's Good]]'', which received six [[Tony Award|Tony nominations]] for its 1991 production. She has a propensity to write about political thinking and conflict, especially where there is a settled orthodoxy: "Then the rebel in me goes berserk, and I start pawing at it. I like the area where the questions are, and the ambiguities of political life, rather than the certainties."<ref name=post/>

== Biography ==
Wertenbaker was born in [[New York City]] to [[Charles Wertenbaker]], a journalist, and Lael Wertenbaker, a writer.<ref name=guardian/><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/29/arts/lael-wertenbaker-87-author-who-wrote-of-husband-s-death.html ''New York Times'', "Lael Wertenbaker, 87, Author Who Wrote of Husband's Death", 1997]</ref> Much of her childhood was spent in the [[French Basque Country|Basque Country]] in the small French fishing village of [[Ciboure]].<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|last=Thorpe|first=Vanessa|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/30/timberlake-wertenbaker-playwright-renaissance-winter-hill-interview|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I got to feel that nobody wanted me'|date=29 April 2017|access-date=14 December 2021|quote=Grew up in the village of Ciboure in the French Basque country.}}</ref> She has been described as possessing a "characteristic reticence"; she has indicated that this may spring partly from her upbringing in Ciboure: "One thing they would tell you as a child was never to say anything because you might be betraying someone who had done something politically or whatever. So I was inculcated with this idea of emotional privacy."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/jun/30/theatre ''The Guardian'', "It's All So Public", 30 June 2004]</ref>

Wertenbaker was the resident writer for [[Shared Experience]] in 1983 and the [[Royal Court Theatre]] from 1984 to 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/timberlake-wertenbaker|title=Timberlake Wertenbaker|work=Literature Matters|publisher=[[British Council]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313215125/https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She was on the Executive Council of the [[English Stage Company]] from 1992 to 1997 and on the Executive Committee of PEN from 1998 to 2001.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} She served as the Royden B. Davis professor of Theatre at [[Georgetown University]], [[Washington D.C.]], for 2005–06. She was the Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the [[Freud Museum]] in 2011. She was also the artistic director of [[New Perspective Theatre Company]]. Currently, Wertenbaker is the Chair in Playwriting at the [[University of East Anglia]]. In addition, she is artistic adviser to the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and on the council of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].

Central topics in her work are the efforts of individuals, particularly women: pursuing quests, seeking change, breaking boundaries, and constructing or challenging gender roles. A central technique is the revisioning of actual or imaginary lives from the past, sometimes remote in place as well as in time. There is a further recurring theme in her work: displacement. In her plays, characters are often removed from the familiarity of home and are forced to live in new cultures, sometimes defined by national boundaries, other times by cultural and class divisions. From this central theme emerge related themes, including isolation, dispossession, and the problem of forging an identity within a new cultural milieu. In her work, individuals often seem to assume roles, as if identity were a matter of persons performing themselves. Wertenbaker's work also demonstrates a keen awareness that communication occurs through language that often inadequately expresses experience.

In 1997, the [[British Library]] acquired Wertenbaker's archive consisting of manuscripts, correspondence and papers relating to her writings.<ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-001980324 Timberlake Wertenbaker Papers], archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 27 May 2020</ref> Wertenbaker has a home in [[north London]], where she lives with her husband, the writer [[John Man (author)|John Man]].

== Honours and awards ==
* 1985 ''Plays and Players'' Most Promising Playwright Award for ''The Grace of Mary Traverse''
* 1988 [[Evening Standard Awards|''Evening Standard'' Award]] for Most Promising Playwright, ''Our Country's Good''
* 1988 [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier/BBC Award]] for Best New Play, ''Our Country's Good''
* 1989 Eileen Anderson [[Central Independent Television|Central Television]] Drama Award for ''The Love of the Nightingale''
* 1989 [[Whiting Awards|Whiting Award]] for Drama
* 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]] for ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field''
* 1992 Writers' Guild Award (Best West End Play) for ''Three Birds Alighting on a Field''
* 2016 Writers' Guild Award (Best New Play) for "Jefferson's Garden"

Wertenbaker was made a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature]] in 2006.<ref name=britishcouncil>[https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/timberlake-wertenbaker ''British Council: Literature'', "Timberlake Wertenbaker"]</ref>

== Works ==

===Plays===
Wertenbaker has written plays for the [[Royal Court Theatre|Royal Court]], the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|RSC]] and other theatre companies:

* ''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]]'' (1991)
* ''The Break of Day'' (1995)
* ''After Darwin'' (1998)
* ''Dianeira'' (radio, 1999)
* ''The Ash Girl'' (adaptation of "Cinderella", 2000)
* ''Credible Witness'' (2001)
* ''Galileo's Daughter'' (2004)
* ''[[Ned Chaillet#Scenes of Seduction|Scenes of Seduction]]'' (radio, 2005)
* ''Divine Intervention'' (2006)
* ''[[Arden City]]'' (for the National Theatre Connections program, 2008)
* ''[[The Line (play)|The Line]]'' (2009)
* ''Our Ajax'' (Southwark Playhouse, produced by Karl Sydow and [[Supporting Wall]], 2013)
* ''[[Midsummer Mischief|The Ant and the Cicada]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Jefferson's Garden]]'' (2015)
* ''Winter Hill'' ([[Octagon Theatre Bolton]], 2017)
* ''Who Are You?'' (2021)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alex |first1=Michael |title=Call the Midwife's Georgie Glen: 'I feel helpless in the fight against climate change - and I'm not alone!' |url=https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/entertainment/theatre/2661186/call-the-midwifes-georgie-glen-often-people-think-i-was-a-teacher-who-taught-them-at-school/ |website=The Courier |date=29 October 2021 |access-date=27 November 2022}}</ref>
* ''Pity the Monster'' (Jermyn Street Theatre as part of 15 Heroines) (2020)

=== Translations and adaptations ===
Her translations and adaptations include several plays by [[Pierre de Marivaux|Marivaux]] (Shared Experience, Radio 3), Sophocles’ Theban Plays (RSC), Euripides’ ''Hecuba'' (ACT, San Francisco), Eduardo de Filippo, [[Gabriela Preissová]]’s ''Jenůfa'' (Arcola), and Racine (''Phèdre'', ''Britannicus'').

* ''Mephisto'' by [[Ariane Mnouchkine]] (1986)
* ''[[Léocadia]]'' 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)
* ''[[Ned Chaillet#Hecuba|Hecuba]]''<ref>[http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/h/he/hecuba__the.html ''The Hecuba'', 2001 radio play]</ref> by [[Euripides]] (2001) (radio)
* ''[[Jenůfa]]'' by Gabriela Preissová (2007)
* ''Hippolytus'' by Euripides (2009)
* ''Phèdre'' by [[Jean Racine]] (2009)
* ''Elektra'' by Sophocles (2010 & 2012)
* ''Antigone'' by Sophocles (2011)
* ''Britannicus'' by Jean Racine (2011)
* ''Little brother. An odyssey to Europe'' by [[Ibrahima Balde (memoirist)|Ibrahima Balde]] and Amets Arzallus Antia (2019)
* ''Jules and Jim,'' adapted from [[Henri-Pierre Roché]]'s novel (2023)
* ''[[The Mongol Khan]]'' (2023)<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/mongolia-west-end-mongol-khan-china-london-theatre-musical/ |title=The West End's controversial new musical – that's already been shut down in China |last=Mesure |first=Susie |date=18 November 2023 |accessdate=19 November 2023 |publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |archive-url= |archive-date=}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [[Mark Lawson]], [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/07/timberlake-wertenbaker-jeffersons-garden "Timberlake Wertenbaker: ‘You can’t get a straightforward history of America’"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 7 February 2015.
* [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/timberlake-wertenbaker#/ Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation]

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