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  • Martin Crimp: Plays 3

    Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness

    by Martin Crimp ...
    Cruel and Tender'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... Highly recommended.' IndependentFewer Emergencies'A triptych of vicious modern fairy tales that brings the nightmare right back and stabs you through the soul.' GuardianThe City'Although this is t... ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • In the Republic of Happiness

    by Martin Crimp ...
    - What're you doing here Robert?- Well to be frank with you, I've really no idea. I thought I would just suddenly appear, so I did. I suddenly appeared.A family Christmas is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Uncle Bob. Who is he? Why has he come? Why does his wife stay out in the car? And what is the meaning of his long and outrageous message? All we can be sure of is that the world will ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Treatment

    by Martin Crimp ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell.But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit.Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The Treatment, was first seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Definitely the Bahamas and Play House

    by Martin Crimp ...
    Sex, work, pregnancy, parents, weird neighbours, cleaning the fridge and dancing: Play House tells - in thirteen fleeting scenes - the story of a young couple's attempts to set up home.In Definitely the Bahamas, Frank and Milly relish the visits of Michael, their charming and successful only child. But what exactly is his relationship to the young student living in their house?Martin Crimp's ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Not One Of These People

    by Martin Crimp ...
    If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.Is it appropriation to invent a voice - or is it an act of empathy?If a playwright's job is to make dialogue, is there a limit to how many characters she / he / they are entitled to invent? Who can these people be? And what if an invented voice says things that even the author would prefer not to hear?With characteristically ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Writing for Nothing

    Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera

    by Martin Crimp ...
    Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life; texts for opera, beginning with the modern masterpiece Written on Skin, created with composer George Benjamin; and two stories that provide a new perspective on Crimp, revealing a writer capable ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Dealing with Clair

    by Martin Crimp ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, butThatThatThat 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 pla... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hamburg Plays

    by Martin Crimp ...
    This volume presents two plays written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and not yet staged in English.The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema rewrites Euripides' Phoenician Women. As Thebes braces itself for civil war, a group of terrifying young women wrest control of the action from the power-players of Greek myth.'A brilliant new interpretation of Euripides' ancient drama.' Süddeutsche ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

    in a free adaptation

    by Martin Crimp, Martin Crimp, Edmond Rostand ...
    A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The False Servant

    by Martin Crimp, Pierre Marivaux ...
    Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier 'girl from Paris', he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier.What he doesn't know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same 'girl from Paris' disguised ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

    Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson's Pamela

    by Martin Crimp, Samuel Richardson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.79 USD