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The theatre of Martin Crimp / Aleks Sierz.

By: Sierz, Aleks.
Contributor(s): Crimp, Martin, 1956-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Methuen Drama 2006Description: x, 275 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780413775887 ; 0413775887 .Subject(s): Crimp, Martin, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 822.914 CRI
Contents:
Partial contents: "includes a wide-ranging interview with Martin Crimp".
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Partial contents: "includes a wide-ranging interview with Martin Crimp".

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements (p. ix)
  • Introduction: 'At Two Shifts From Reality?' (p. 1)
  • 1 'A Knock at the Door' (p. 13)
  • Living Remains
  • Four Attempted Acts
  • A Variety of Death-Defying Acts
  • Definitely the Bahamas
  • Dealing with Clair
  • Play with Repeats
  • 2 'Denial, Brutality and Sheer Human Confusion' (p. 29)
  • No One Sees the Video
  • Getting Attention
  • The Treatment
  • The Misanthrope
  • 3 'Privileged Distance from Death and Dismemberment' (p. 48)
  • Attempts on Her Life
  • The Country
  • Face to the Wall
  • Cruel and Tender
  • Fewer Emergencies
  • 4 'French is My Film or TV' (p. 70)
  • The Chairs
  • One More Wasted Year
  • Roberto Zucco
  • The Maids
  • The Triumph of Love
  • The False Servant
  • 5 'Dialogue is Inherently Cruel' (p. 86)
  • Martin Crimp in Conversation
  • 6 'Hearing Their Voices' (p. 110)
  • Crimpland's Contours
  • Playwright's Voice
  • Linguistic Toolbox and Marks on the Page
  • 7 'Viewed With Hostility and Suspicion' (p. 126)
  • Troubled Selves
  • Cruel Liaisons
  • Modern Marriages
  • Nuclear Families and Victimised Children
  • 8 'My Plays Emit Criticism' (p. 142)
  • Satirical Stance
  • Ironic Distance
  • Power Games
  • Male Gaze
  • Consumerism and the Culture of Contentment
  • 'Conclusion': 'Looking for Constraints' (p. 157)
  • The Interviews (p. 173)
  • Appendix Attempts on his Life (p. 221)
  • Timeline (p. 226)
  • Notes (p. 229)
  • Bibliography (p. 252)
  • Index (p. 262)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Aleks Sierz is "Tribune's" (U.K.) theater critic, & also reviews for "The Stage". He works as a freelance journalist & teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

(Bowker Author Biography)