Martin Crimp Plays 3Martin Crimp Plays 3

2015-11-12 Martin Crimp

Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness Martin Crimp. 2 She gets married very young, doesn't she. 3 Does what? 2 Gets married, gets married very young, and immediately realises—— 3 Oh? That it's a ...

Author: Martin Crimp

Publisher: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 9780571325375

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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.' Independent Fewer Emergencies 'A triptych of vicious modern fairy tales that brings the nightmare right back and stabs you through the soul.'Guardian The City 'Although this is the most disquieting play in London, there is a curious exhilaration about both the performance and Crimp's confrontation with our perpetual unease.' Guardian Definitely the Bahamas 'A summation of a life lived vicariously, at the margins of other lives, between suffocating suburban walls; and the play is as unflinching as it is unnerving.' The Times Play House 'Play House concerns the volatility and vulnerability of love, as a young couple, Simon and Katrina set up home... Unusually for Crimp, the play both begins and ends with moving declarations of love. Suddenly this usually chilly dramatist seems unexpectedly blessed with a warm heart.' Daily Telegraph In the Republic of Happiness 'Crimp goes so far as to call it "an entertainment in three parts," and it rocks along like a dystopian vaudeville... The actors are imprisoned and liberated at once, their strange between-worlds condition a source of joy, intemperateness and above all a care for our diversion... My favourite play of the year.'What's on Stage

Martin Crimp s Power PlaysMartin Crimp s Power Plays

2022-06-16 Vicky Angelaki

Acknowledgements Introduction: Surveying the Battleground: Martin Crimp's Relationscapes 1 Imitating Art: Fiction Pieces and Short Plays 2 Mating for Life: Men Asleep 3 Handling with Care: Cyrano de Bergerac and When We Have ...

Author: Vicky Angelaki

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781000655292

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This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and public, through an honest look at power structures and shifts, marriages and relationships, sexuality, and desire. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Drama, Theatre and Performance, English Literature, and Opera Studies.

The Theatre of Martin Crimp epubThe Theatre of Martin Crimp epub

2006-10-12 Aleks Sierz

References No One Sees the Video, The Misanthrope, Attempts on Her Life and The Country are to Martin Crimp: Plays Two (2005). All theatre programmes, and other documents related to specific stagings, can be found in production files ...

Author: Aleks Sierz

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781408147306

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A guide to all of the plays of Martin Crimp. For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of new writing for the British stage. His main stage plays include Dealing with Clair, The Treatment, Attempts on Her Life, The Country, and Cruel and Tender, with his 1997 masterpiece, Attempts on Her Life, arguably being one of the best plays of the past quarter century. By the author of the landmark study of contemporary British drama, In-Yer-Face Theatre, this is the first study of Martin Crimp's work for stage and radio. Arguing that Crimp is one of the most acute satirists of contemporary British society, Aleks Sierz provides an accessible and fascinating account of the playwright's work. As well as an account of each of Crimp's plays and an analysis of his oeuvre, the volume includes a wide-ranging interview with Crimp himself and interviews with all the key directors responsible for staging his work, including Sam Walters, Katie Mitchell, James Mcdonald and Lindsay Posner.

The Theatre of Martin CrimpThe Theatre of Martin Crimp

2013-12-16 Aleks Sierz

to andThe Treatmentare toMartin Crimp: Plays One(2000). References No One Sees the Video, The Misanthrope, Attempts on Her Life and The Country are to Martin Crimp: Plays Two (2005). All theatre programmes, and other documents related ...

Author: Aleks Sierz

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781472517012

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First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British theatre's leading contemporary playwrights. Combining Sierz's lucid prose and sharp analysis together with interviews with Martin Crimp and a host of directors and actors who have produced the work, it offered a richly rewarding and engaging assessment of this acutely satirical playwright. The second edition additionally explores the work produced between 2006 and 2013, both the major new plays and the translations and other work. The second edition considers The City, the 2008 companion play to The Country, Play House from 2012 and the new work for the Royal Court in late 2012. The two works that have brought Crimp considerable international acclaim in recent years, the updated rewrite of The Misanthrope which in 2009 played for several months in the West End starring Keira Knightley, and Crimp's translation of Botho Strauss's Big and Small (Barbican, 2012), together with Crimp's other work in translation are all covered. The Theatre of Martin Crimp remains the fullest, most readable account of Crimps's work for the stage.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish LiteratureThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

2020-09-03 Richard Bradford

REFERENCES Martin Crimp is a first‐class writer who takes the best of the British modernist tradition — Beckett's linguistic ... two shifts from reality', but his plays offer a multilayered and heightened reality, at once completely ...

Author: Richard Bradford

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9781119653066

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THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Psychophysical ActingPsychophysical Acting

2012-10-12 Phillip B. Zarrilli

6 In Exeter in 2007 one Doctor–Figure scenario was played by two pairs—one speaking English, and the second speaking Korean and ... Martin Crimp: Plays 1 and Plays 2 are published by Faber and Faber (2001 and 2005 respectively).

Author: Phillip B. Zarrilli

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134313358

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Psychophysical Acting is a direct and vital address to the demands of contemporary theatre on today’s actor. Drawing on over thirty years of intercultural experience, Phillip Zarrilli aims to equip actors with practical and conceptual tools with which to approach their work. Areas of focus include: an historical overview of a psychophysical approach to acting from Stanislavski to the present acting as an ‘energetics’ of performance, applied to a wide range of playwrights: Samuel Beckett, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Kaite O’Reilly and Ota Shogo a system of training though yoga and Asian martial arts that heightens sensory awareness, dynamic energy, and in which body and mind become one practical application of training principles to improvisation exercises. Psychophysical Acting is accompanied by Peter Hulton’s interactive DVD-ROM featuring exercises, production documentation, interviews, and reflection.

Martin Crimp s TheatreMartin Crimp s Theatre

2013-05-28 Clara Escoda Agusti

Crimp, Martin 1986: Three Attempted Acts. In Best Radio Plays of 1985: The BBC Giles Cooper Award Winners. ... 2005a: Plays Two: No One Sees the Video, The Misanthrope, Attempts on Her Life, The Country. London: Faber.

Author: Clara Escoda Agusti

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 9783110309959

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This book reads Martin Crimp’s The Treatment (1993), Attempts on her Life (1997), The Country (2000), Face to the Wall (2002), Cruel and Tender (2004) and his adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull (2006) in the context of contemporary, late capitalist societies of control or of ‘spectacle’, and explores how female collapse in particular works as a form of denunciation of the violence of globalized, technological neo-liberalism. The book contends that Crimp is a post-Holocaust writer, whose dramaturgy is pervaded by the ethical and aesthetic debates that the Holocaust has generated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its main claim is that, by interpellating spectators through the defamiliarized language of collapse and testimony, Crimp invites spectators to contribute to detecting the seeds of ‘barbarism’ as they may detect them in their context, thus warning them about the introduction of violence in supposedly civilized relationships and thereby also contributing to overcoming the contemporary ethical impasse. The book finally argues that female characters who pass on their testimony are shown to the audience in the ‘process of becoming’ ethical bodies – namely, they are emerge as ethical out of the perceived necessity to integrate both the Other as essential parts of their beings, thus recovering an innate, Baumian sense of responsibility towards the Other.

Gao Xingjian s Post Exile PlaysGao Xingjian s Post Exile Plays

2015-11-19 Mary Mazzilli

Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre Mary Mazzilli. 2 ... When I came across Martin Crimp's play in the early 2000s and had already started studying Gao's work, I was amazed to find, by coincidence, that a play of Martin Crimp's, ...

Author: Mary Mazzilli

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781472591623

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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational. In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and full of variety of styles and influences. As such this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights on contemporary theatre. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis that will help readers to better understand his complex work, and also to see it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. Among the plays discussed are: The Other Shore, written just before he left China in 1987; Between Life and Death (1991) - compared in detail to Martin Crimp's Attempts on her life; Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), and its relationship to Beckett's Happy Days; Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), Weekend Quartet (1995), and the latest plays Snow in August (1997), Death Collector (2000) and Ballade Nocturne (2010).

Teaching Postdramatic TheatreTeaching Postdramatic Theatre

2018-04-06 Glenn D'Cruz

2007. Practice as research: Approaches to Creative Arts enquiry. London and New York: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd. Crimp, Martin. 1997. Attempts on Her Life. London: Faber and Faber. ———. 2005. martin Crimp Plays 2. London: Faber and Faber.

Author: Glenn D'Cruz

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319716855

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This book explores the concept and vocabulary of postdramatic theatre from a pedagogical perspective. It identifies some of the major anxieties and paradoxes generated by teaching postdramatic theatre through practice, with reference to the aesthetic, cultural and institutional pressures that shape teaching practices. It also presents a series of case studies that identify the pedagogical fault lines that expose the power-relations inherent in teaching (with a focus on the higher education sector as opposed to actor training institutions). It uses auto-ethnography, performance analysis and critical theory to assist university teachers involved in directing theatre productions to deepen their understanding of the concept of postdramatic theatre.

Lives in PlayLives in Play

2012-08-08 Ryan Claycomb

The nature of this connection varies in observing Kane's expression of admiration for Crimp's work. See Martin Crimp, Attempts on Her Life, in Martin Crimp: Plays: 2 (London: Faber and Faber, 2005), 197–284. 74. Saunders, Love Me, 109.

Author: Ryan Claycomb

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

ISBN: 9780472118403

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Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University