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.
New Anatomies
In this wondrous drama Timberlake Wertenbaker explores the beauty and terror inherent in growing up. The Ash Girl premiered at Birmingham Rep in 2001.
'This is the very stuff of the theatre', he enthused.112 Stafford-Clark remembers this unprecedented response: 'Three standing ovations at the end of a play is difficult, it's never easy in England, it's not a tradition in this country.
Three Birds Alighting on a Field
New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Country's Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field
The author Laura ESQUIVEL applies the same form of matriarchal history in Like Water for Chocolate (1989), which records the damage to women by a family tradition requiring the daughter, Tita de la Garza, to abjure marriage and personal ...
THE STORY: Mary Traverse, the pretty, carefully schooled daughter of a wealthy London merchant, chafes at her pampered existence, and hungers for knowledge and experience of the outside world.
Esther Beth Sullivan's Althusserian concern with how Wertenbaker's plays represent 'significant action' in 'Hailing Ideology, Acting in the Horizon, and Reading Between Plays by Timberlake Wertenbaker', Theatre journal, Vol. 45, No.
The Love of the Nightingale
Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts. Colony discipline in this vast and alien land is brutal....