~playauthor~Written by~
Patrick Marber
,
August Strindberg
~playauthor~From an original work by~
August Strindberg
Methuen Drama, 2004
Contemporary Dramatists
playtext
Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)
...After Miss Julie relocates August Strindberg's Miss Julie (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first 'naturalistic tragedy' the events of Strindberg's original are transposed...
~playauthor~Written by~
Patrick Marber
,
August Strindberg
~playauthor~From an original work by~
August Strindberg
Methuen Drama, 2004
Contemporary Dramatists
playtext
Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)
...Closer: 'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in Closer he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics...
Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)
...In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal...
~playauthor~Written by~
Patrick Marber
,
August Strindberg
~playauthor~From an original work by~
August Strindberg
Methuen Drama, 2004
Contemporary Dramatists
playtext
Acts: 3, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (6), Female (0), Male (6), Unassigned (0)
...Dealer's Choice premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play.
'An...
Acts: 5, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (1)
...Inspired by Molière's farcical, tragic, anarchic Don Juan (1665), Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho transports the action to contemporary London and follows the debauched protagonist's final adventures.
Don Juan...
Acts: 2, Roles: Total (34), Female (12), Male (21), Unassigned (1)
...Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set in contemporary London...
Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (3), Female (0), Male (3), Unassigned (0)
...Small time semi-pro football, the non-league. A world away from the wealth and the television cameras. A young player touched with brilliance arrives from nowhere. An ambitious manager determines to make him his own. And the old soul...