Martin Crimp es un dramaturgo británico célebre por la astringencia de sus diálogos y un tono de desapego emocional. Sus obras a menudo exploran una perspectiva sombría de las relaciones humanas, donde los personajes rara vez experimentan amor o alegría. Cada vez más, el enfoque de Crimp se ha desplazado hacia la forma y el lenguaje teatral, alejándose de las preocupaciones narrativas tradicionales. Su estilo distintivo ofrece una exploración desafiante y que invita a la reflexión sobre la conexión humana.
I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong?A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of Martin Crimp's version of Marivaux's great comedy.
Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de theatre, premiered at Theatre La Bordee, Quebec City, in June 2022, and at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2022.
Two compelling plays by Crimp make their English debut in this volume. "The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema" offers a modern reinterpretation of Euripides' "Phoenician Women," while "Men Asleep" delves into generational divides, challenging societal norms surrounding gender and power dynamics. Together, these works showcase Crimp's innovative storytelling and thought-provoking themes.
Go on then: lock the doors and see what happens. Show me how much power you really have. When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other breaks through the surface of contemporary debate to explore the messy, often violent nature of desire and the fluid, complicated roles that men and women play. Using Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela as a provocation, six characters act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance. When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other premiered at the National Theatre, London, in January 2019.
Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Unsettling, elegant and incisive, Writing for Nothing is a vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand’s extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero—Cyrano De Bergerac—and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage. This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.
'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That is what I enjoy. That is what I'm good at, okay?' Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are selling. James wants to buy. He'll only deal with Clair. Martin Crimp's play Dealing with Clair premiered in 1988 at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. This edition was published alongside a new production of the play at the Orange Tree, in October 2018, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... the approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling.
What're you doing here Robert? I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared. All we can be sure of is that the world will never be the same again. A provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions, In the Republic of Happiness premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in December 2012.
You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying.