Patrick Marber
1) Closer
Author
Language
English
Description
Play focuses on the desperate struggles of four individuals as they couple and re-couple, increasingly desperate in their attempts to get 'closer.' For mature audiences only, this is a powerful play examining difficult and painful issues with honesty, integrity, humor and humanity. The language, while poetic and powerful, is rough. Sex is dealt with frankly and graphically. It is an uncompromisingly honest look at the possibility (and impossibility)...
2) Closer
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
Language
English
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
4) The critic
Language
English
Description
A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.