Visiting Theater Artists
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Davis Visiting Professor for 2005-06
Playwright
The College's Theater Program is pleased to host acclaimed British Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker as the Royden B. Davis S.J. Visiting Professor in 2005-06. Internationally-recognized for works such as Our Country's Good, The Love of the Nightingale, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Credible Witness, and After Darwin, Wertenbaker writes of history, immigrations, and justice. She has won the London Critic's Circle Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play, and the Writers Guild Award, among other awards. She has adapted and translated works by Marivaux, Anouilh, Maeterlink, Pirandello, Sophocles and Euripides and has also written the screenplays for film adaptations of Edith Wharton's The Children and Henry James' The Wings of the Dove. She writes with wit, poetry, and theatricality.
Wertenbaker will be in residence at Georgetown for the opening and first year of the Royden B. Davis, S.J., Performing Arts Center. The Theater Program will open its season, and the Gonda Theatre, with a performance of her Our Country's Goodû a comic and moving play-within-a-play about Australia's founding as a penal colony, the power of theater, and diversity. In the fall, Wertenbaker will teach an interdisciplinary seminar called War and Peace: History in Drama; in the spring she will lead a series of masterclasses as well as offer a public lecture to the extended community.
