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Martin Crimp

MARTIN CRIMP

  (1956 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Judy Daish Associates Ltd  

Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His plays include Three attempted acts (1985), Dealing with Clair (1988), Play with Repeats (1989), No One Sees the Video (1991), Getting attention (1992), the Treatment (1993, winner of the John Whiting award), attempts on her Life (1997) and the Country (2000). He has translated or adapted work by Ionesco (the Chairs, 1997), Genet (the MAIDS, 1999) and Moliere (the Misanthrope, 1996).His work in the UK has been produced by the Orange Tree Theatre, the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Stephen Joseph Theatre, the RSC, the Young Vic and the Royal Court, where he was writer-in-residence in 1997. In New York his work has been seen at the Public Theater and the Classic Stage Company, as well as on Broadway.

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         Advice To Iraqi Women         Appreciation of Music         Attempts On Her Life         British Summer Time Ends         Ceisio'I Bywyd Hi         Chairs, The         City, The         Clang         Country, The         Cruel And Tender         Dealing With Clair         Definitely the Bahamas         Face To the Wall         False Servant, The         Fewer Emergencies         Four Attempted Acts         Getting Attention         Gross Und Klein (Big And Small)         Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond To the 2010 Election         In the Republic Of Happiness         Into the Little Hill         Iron Rice Bowl, The         Jewish Wife, The         Kind Of Arden, A         Living Remains         Love Games         Maids, The         Making Love         Misanthrope, The         No One Sees the Video         One More Wasted Year         Pains Of Youth         Play House         Play With Repeats         Rhinoceros         Roberto Zucco         Rough Cuts         Seagull, The         Spanish Girls         Suicide         Taking Love         Treatment, The         Triumph Of Love, The         Variety Of Death-Defying Acts, A         Whole Blue Sky         You Just Had To Be My Brother

Advice To Iraqi Women

Synopsis:
A satire exploring our collective distance from the realities facing Iraqi women.

Notes:
part of A ROYAL WELCOME readings to celebrate the visit of George W Bush

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short satire

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Appreciation of Music

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Notes:
part of Four Attempted Acts

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Attempts On Her Life

Synopsis:
Martin Crimp's coolly european meditation in 17 scenes on a woman, also called anne - who may be a terrorist on the run, or an artist who has turned her suicide attempts into her art, or a traveller who has her photo taken by millionaires' swimming pools and in slums, or a woman whose children have been slaughtered in civil war, or even a child herself - is not an easy text for any director. and particularly not for one right at the start of her career and without lots of resources. Lyn Gardner, Guardian

Notes:
also performed As (Welsh translation by Owen Martell. Sherman Cymru presents A new, bold Welsh language production, with live music from the Acid Casuals, As part of this year's National eisteddfod in Bala. Ceisio'i Bywyd Hi is A series of scenes, monologues, songs And negotiations between unnamed characters, that tell A story. . .that conjures A woman, referred to As Ann, who At various times is A An urban terrorist, A proud mother, A humanitarian worker, A scientist, A porn star, An Artist And even A brand new model of A car. And yet she never Appears. the result is A modern-day fable - A tragic comedy for our time. From material greed to unconditional self-sacrifice, from unprotected sex to religious fundamentalism, this is A provocative vision of A world of fear, detachment And Alienation And A poignant portrayal of contemporary obsessions. 2009)

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Royal Court

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Faber and Faber, London, 1997   -

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British Summer Time Ends

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Ceisio'I Bywyd Hi

Synopsis:
Sherman Cymru presents a new, bold Welsh language production, with live music from the acid Casuals, as part of this year's National eisteddfod in Bala. Ceisio'i Bywyd Hi is a series of scenes, monologues, songs and negotiations between unnamed characters, that tell a story. . .that conjures a woman, referred to as ann, who at various times is a an urban terrorist, a proud mother, a humanitarian worker, a scientist, a porn star, an artist and even a brand new model of a car. and yet she never appears. the result is a modern-day fable - a tragic comedy for our time. From material greed to unconditional self-sacrifice, from unprotected sex to religious fundamentalism, this is a provocative vision of a world of fear, detachment and alienation and a poignant portrayal of contemporary obsessions.

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Translation Owen Martell

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play with music

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Chairs, The

Chairs, The
In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

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Organisations:
Theatre de Complicite

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1997   978-0571194513

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  extras

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City, The

City, The
"and I know what you're thinking: you're thinking it must be pretty easy to kill people who are simply clinging on to life. But the people clinging on to life are the most dangerous people of all." Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here? Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.

Notes:
first performed at the Schaubuhne, Berlin on 21 March 2008 in a German language producyion.

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Clang

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Country, The

Synopsis:
Who is the comatose woman Richard has found on the roadside? Why has he brought her into his house? exactly who is telling the truth and who is lying? Martin Crimp's play is a spare and glitteringly written dissection of desire and despair.

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Faber and Faber, London, 2000   -

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Cruel And Tender

Synopsis:
Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love. Martin Crimp's new play takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence - 'the Trachiniae' - and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism

Notes:
Original Playwright - Sophocles, Adapted from Trachiniae

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Organisations:
Wiener Festwochen

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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Dealing With Clair

Synopsis:
Claire, a young estate agent introduces couple to rich purchaser, but he is only after Claire

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1st Produced:
Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     14 Oct 1988

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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1988   -

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Definitely the Bahamas

Definitely the Bahamas
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?

Notes:
BBC Radio 3 broadcast April 1987

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short play

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Face To the Wall

Synopsis:
truth - Frank and Milly relish the visits of Michael, their charming and incredibly successful only child. But what exactly is his relationship to the young student living in their house? Originally produced by BBC Radio 3, then staged at the Orange Tree, directed by alec McCowen, this is one of he first plays in which we can recognise Martin Crimp's distinctive voice.

Notes:
part of the trilogy "Fewer Emergencies"

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Faber and Faber, London, 2002   -

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Short Play One act

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False Servant, The

Synopsis:
"For a writer often thought of as coldly mathematical, there is something strangely unresolved about this particular Marivaux play. everything hinges on a young woman's disguise as a chevalier, ostensibly to witness first-hand the mercenariness of a potential husband, Lelio. Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself. Her apparent aim is to protect the countess's money and expose Lelio's deviousness. But is that her actual motive? Marivaux's real preoccupation is erotic power and the fluidity of gender. Unlike the Rodgers and Hammerstein heroine who enjoyed being a girl, Marivaux's protagonist clearly relishes being a man. She stresses her attractiveness, is ready to fight a duel with Lelio and, in two extraordinary seduction scenes, reduces the countess to grovelling humiliation. She may, in Crimp's witty translation, sardonically announce, "I see blood on a regular basis," but she is driven by an androgynous narcissism that links her with the cross-dressing Dietrich and Hepburn heroines of 20th-century cinema. ", Guardian

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux

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Organisations:
National Theatre, London

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Faber and Faber, London, 2004   -

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Genre:
Translation

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Fewer Emergencies

Synopsis:
Things are definitely looking up - brighter light - more frequent boating - more confident smile - things are improving day by day - who ever would've guessed?' Fewer Emergencies involves four voices, three stories, two songs and a rodent called Bobby.

Notes:
Whole Blue Sky, Face To the Wall, Fewer Emergencies

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Faber and Faber, London, 2005   -

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Genre:
Three Short Plays One act

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Four Attempted Acts

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four one Act plays: Appreciation of Music, Making Love, Suicide, Taking Love

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Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     15 Oct 1984

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Getting Attention

Synopsis:
Devastating probe into the problems of child abuse

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1991   -

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Play/Drama

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Gross Und Klein (Big And Small)

Synopsis:
In a journey across contemporary Germany, Cate Blanchett features in this delicately surreal play. Whisking us down a rabbit hole and into a wonderland-like world, Gross und Klein transports us to a hotel dining room in Morocco where Lotte (Blanchett) sits alone. Courageously optimistic and perpetually disappointed Lotte is in constant search for human connection. She is rejected by her husband, unrecognised by old friends and unfamiliar with her family. Whether she is outside a window peeping in or buzzing on an unanswered intercom this iconic protagonist never quite fits. Like Carrolls alice, sometimes Lotte is too big for her surroundings and sometimes too small to be noticed within them.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Botho Strauss. English text by Martin Crimp

1st Produced:
Sydney Theatre Company     19 Nov 2011

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Sydney Theatre Company

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Genre:
translation

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Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond To the 2010 Election

Synopsis:
Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at theatre Local, elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Local, Elephant And Castle, London     22 Jun 2010

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Royal Court

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In the Republic Of Happiness

In the Republic Of Happiness
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 never be the same again. In the Republic of Happiness is a provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions.

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Into the Little Hill

Synopsis:
a faceless stranger arrives in town and agrees to exterminate its plague of rats; but when the Mayor refuses to pay up, his actions have terrible repercussions. a gripping version of the Pied Piper fable

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Opera Group

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Genre:
short opera

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Iron Rice Bowl, The

Synopsis:
a truly unique and inspiring evening of theatre, dance, music, art, comedy and the classics, representing the work of Human Rights Watch.

Notes:
Part of Behind the headlines. Including A new sketch by Martin Crimp And performances from Khalid Abdalla, Tunji Lucas, Helen McCrory, Thandie Newton, Sophie Okonedo And two principal dancers of the Rambert Dance Company. With music performances from Chartwell Dutiro And Randolph And Byron. Artists supporting the evening include Anish Kapoor And Ai Wei Wei.

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Human Rights Watch

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Jewish Wife, The

Synopsis:
Berlin - the city of Jews. a woman reassures her friends and packs her life into a suitcase.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Part of the Big Brecht Fest: Brecht Double Bill 1 Literal translation by Simon Scardifield

1st Produced:
Young Vic Theatre, London >>>     29 Mar 2007

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Translation

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Kind Of Arden, A

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Living Remains

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London     1982

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Love Games

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adapted by Martin Crimp And Howard Curtis from work by Jerzy Przedziecki

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adaptation

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Maids, The

Synopsis:
the fantasies of two maids who are sisters as they enact their vicious charade

Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Genet

1st Produced:
Young Vic Theatre, London >>>     01 Jul 1999

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1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1999   -

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Translation

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Making Love

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Four Attempted Acts

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one act

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Misanthrope, The

Misanthrope, The
comedy of manners centres on highly principled man who cannot bring himself to temper the truth with tact

Notes:
Original Playwright - Moliere

1st Produced:
Cottier Theatre, Glasgow     11 Sep 1997

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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No One Sees the Video

Synopsis:
a report on the consumer age, cool, hard, and ferociously funny" Observer

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1991   -

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Play/Drama

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One More Wasted Year

Synopsis:
Two young men in their late twenties hang around in bars but already are too old for the youth generation.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Christophe Pellet

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Organisations:
Royal Court

1st Published:
in Frontline Drama 6: New French Plays, Methuen, London, 1998   -

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-

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Pains Of Youth

Pains Of Youth
Vienna, 1923. a discontented post-war generation diagnose youth to be their sickness and do their best to destroy it. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying. Freder sets about savagely experimenting with the young, pretty maid, with half an eye on his former lover Desiree, a wild, disillusioned aristocrat. Petrell abandons Marie for the ruthless underdog Irene. Marie doesn't waste any time weeping - Desiree wants her.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Ferdinand Bruckner

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-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber 2009   978-0571255641

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-

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adaptation

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Play House

Play House
tells the story, in 13 bravura scenes, of a young couple's attempts to set up home.

Notes:
Sex, work, pregnancy, madness, parents, weird neighbours, cleaning the fridge And dancing - Play House (2011) tells the story, in 13 bravura scenes, of A young couple's Attempts to set up home

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-

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short play

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Play With Repeats

Synopsis:
Centring on "an earnest inadequate, the kind of man who starts talking to strangers in pubs, the play becomes progressively chillier and more violent" Daily Telegraph

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     13 Oct 1989

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1989   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Rhinoceros

Synopsis:
When a rhinoceros charges across the town square one Sunday afternoon, Berenger thinks nothing of it. Soon, however, rhinoceroses are popping up everywhere and Berengers whole world is under threat. What will it take for him to stand up to the increasing menace of rhinocerisation? Ionesco's iconic satire on apathy and conformity is given its first major UK revival since its Roval Court vremiere in 1960.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

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-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2007   -

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-

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Translation

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Roberto Zucco

Synopsis:
tells the story of Roberto Zucco, a criminal driven to murder and brutal rape by a culture that at once rejects and worships him. Zucco's alienation--as outcast and as celebrity--provides a framework for Koltes's ironic, bitter commentary on the rampant dysfunctionality of a society that values money above love and self-interest even higher

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes

1st Produced:
The Other Place, Stratford     26 Nov 1997

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-

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Rough Cuts

Synopsis:
Ten of Britain's leading playwrights respond to the 2010 General election. Five nights of ten minute short plays at theatre Local, elephant and Castle. Tue 22 & Thu 24 June at 7pm featuring plays by April de Angelis, Tim Crouch, Michael Wynne, Dipo agboluaje and Leo Butler. Wed 23 & Fri 25 June at 7pm featuring plays by alia Bano, Michael Bhim, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Martin Crimp and Emma Crowe. Sat 26 June at 7pm featuring all plays by the ten writers. Hung Over takes place as part of Rough Cuts, the Royal Court's annual season of work-in-progress, experimental pieces, readings and shorts. Rough Cuts emerges from the year-round activities of the Studio, providing an opportunity for emerging and established artists to develop ideas collaboratively, experimentally and informally.

Notes:
Hung Over - 10 Playwrights Respond to the 2010 election

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-

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-   -

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-

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Ten Min

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Seagull, The

Synopsis:
This pared-down version of Chekhov's first great play reveals the full force of its comedy and cruelty - whether it's love, sex, incredible fame, or simply a trip into town, each character is denied the thing they most crave.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Lyttelton, London     17 Jun 2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2006   -

Music:
-

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Spanish Girls

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

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-

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-   -

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-

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Suicide

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of Four Attempted Acts

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-

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-   -

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-

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one act

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Taking Love

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of Four Attempted Acts

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-

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-   -

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-

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Treatment, The

Synopsis:
Two film producers offer to buy story of wife running from oppression and end up buying her body and mind

Notes:
winner of the John Whiting Award

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London, 1993   -

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-

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Triumph Of Love, The

Synopsis:
A sparkling erotic comedy of mistaken identity, double dealing and passions unspoken. At the heart of the play is the brilliant young Princess Leonide, a bewitching seducer who assumes several different personas - male and female - to ensure that love conquers all.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Marivaux

1st Produced:
Almeida Theatre, London >>>     02 Sep 1999

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 1999   -

Music:
-

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Variety Of Death-Defying Acts, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>     13 Dec 1985

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-

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-   -

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-

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Whole Blue Sky

Synopsis:
Things are definitely looking up - brighter light - more frequent boating - more confident smile - things are improving day by day - who ever would've guessed?' Fewer Emergencies involves four voices, three stories, two songs and a rodent called Bobby.

Notes:
part of the trilogy "Fewer Emergencies"

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Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2005   -

Music:
-

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Three Short Plays One act

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You Just Had To Be My Brother

Synopsis:
a short play about a young arab girl.

Notes:
translated by Martin Crimp from book by Pauline Sales

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-

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-   -

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-

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translation

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