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.
Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp
Using Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela as a provocation, six characters act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance.
Then one day a man turns up, sees her, and mindlessly destroys her.' Martin Crimp's pared down version of Chekhov's first great play reveals... Læs mere
A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.
Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire about a world in which people are products, movies are money and sex sells.
This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country. 'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinatory clarity . . .
Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de théâtre, premiered at Théâtre La Bordée, Québec City, in June 2022, and at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2022.
- 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.... Læs mere