Martin Crimp est un dramaturge britannique réputé pour l'âpreté de ses dialogues et un ton de détachement émotionnel. Ses œuvres explorent souvent une perspective sombre des relations humaines, où les personnages éprouvent rarement l'amour ou la joie. De plus en plus, l'attention de Crimp s'est déplacée vers la forme et le langage théâtral, s'éloignant des préoccupations narratives traditionnelles. Son style distinctif offre une exploration stimulante et provocatrice de la connexion humaine.
I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong?A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of Martin Crimp's version of Marivaux's great comedy.
Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de theatre, premiered at Theatre La Bordee, Quebec City, in June 2022, and at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2022.
Two compelling plays by Crimp make their English debut in this volume. "The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema" offers a modern reinterpretation of Euripides' "Phoenician Women," while "Men Asleep" delves into generational divides, challenging societal norms surrounding gender and power dynamics. Together, these works showcase Crimp's innovative storytelling and thought-provoking themes.
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 domination and resistance. When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other premiered at the National Theatre, London, in January 2019.
Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Unsettling, elegant and incisive, Writing for Nothing is a vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.
Affublé d'un nez proéminent qui l'empêche de déclarer à sa cousine l'amour qu'il éprouve pour elle, Cyrano est un homme d'une noblesse rare : il aidera son rival, qu'il sait aimé de la belle, à la conquérir. Rostand a signé avec cette comédie héroïque un chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature universelle.
'It is a stress, yes, to deal, undeniably, to deal with people, yes, but That That That 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 play at the Orange Tree, in October 2018, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
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.
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. A provocative roll-call of contemporary obsessions, In the Republic of Happiness premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in December 2012.
You are the ultimate cliche of youth's incredible potential. Promiscuous, pitiless and bored, six sexually entangled medical students restlessly wander in and out of a boarding house, cramming, drinking, taunting, spying.