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. Personal life Wertenbaker has a home in north London, where she lives with her husband, the writer John Man. The couple have one non-binary child, Dushka. Legacy In 1997, the British Library acquired Wertenbaker's archive consisting of manuscripts, correspondence and papers relating to her writings. Honours and awards 1985 Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award for The Grace of Mary Traverse 1988 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, Our Country's Good 1988 Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play, Our Country's Good 1989 Eileen Anderson Central Television Drama Award for The Love of the Nightingale 1989 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. Works Plays Wertenbaker has written plays for the Royal Court, the 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) Scenes of Seduction (radio, 2005) Divine Intervention (2006) Arden City (for the National Theatre Connections program, 2008) The Line (2009) Our Ajax (Southwark Playhouse, produced by Karl Sydow and Supporting Wall, 2013) The Ant and the Cicada (2014) Jefferson's Garden (2015) Winter Hill' (Octagon Theatre Bolton,