Timberlake Wertenbaker is a playwright. American by birth, she was brought up in France and lives in Britain. Credible Witness, her most recent play, which is about asylum seekers in a British detention centre, was premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2001. Her other plays include Our Country’s Good, Abel’s Sister, The Grace of Mary Traverse, Three Birds Alighting in a Field, The Love of a Nightingale and After Darwin.

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People are reassembling communities in the global public spaces between home, work, and country of origin. Researching her play about the hard road from Macedonia to London, a dramatist discovers the exile café to be not just a place of refuge, but a metaphor for the continent’s future.