The sub-title for this play is "Sixteen Scenarios for the Theatre". It is a slice of theatre which takes fragments from life and slowly pieces them together. Each fragment is apparently enclosed, but when read as a whole they evoke a world of power and fear.

Attempts on Her Life

Literature & Fiction

Crimp, Martin

Dramas & Plays

Faber&Faber

In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories. With brilliant eccentricity, Ionesco's 'tragic farce' combines a comic portrait of human folly with a magical experiment in theatrical possibilities.

The Chairs

Ionesco, Eugène

Theatre De Complicite (Theatrical Troupe)

Royal Court Theatre

Who is the comatose woman Richard has found on the roadside? Why has he brought her into his house? Exactly who is telling the truth and who is lying?Martin Crimp's new play is a spare and glitteringly written dissection of desire and despair.

The Country (Faber Plays)

Martin Crimp, among the most successful British playwrights and translators of his generation, demonstrates a powerful modern sensibility and control of language that The Sunday Times calls "harsh, elegant and sardonic . . . as if Evelyn Waugh and Bret Easton Ellis had collaborated on a horrifying morality play." These qualities are apparent in this volume, which includes Dealing with Clair, in which a routine real-estate deal results in a mysterious assault on the agent, and The Treatment, which focuses on the fantasies-sexual and otherwise-among the young and not so young in New York's Tribeca.

Martin Crimp Plays One: Dealing With Clair, Getting Attention, Play With Repeats, the Treatment

Humor & Entertainment

Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love. Martin Crimp's new play takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence - 'The Trachiniae' - and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism. Cruel and Tender was produced by Wiener Festwochen, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Young Vic, where it opened in London before premiering at the 2004 Vienna Festival.

Cruel and Tender: After Sophocles' Trachiniae

Movies

False Servant

Romance

Contemporary

Faber and Faber

Attempts on Her Life by Martin Crimp is at turns hilarious and shocking, a rollercoaster of twentieth century obsessions from pornography to ethnic violence and terrorism to unprotected sex.

Attempts on Her Life (Faber Drama)

Cruel and Tender. "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...Highly recommended." (Independent). Fewer Emergencies. "A triptych of vicious modern fairy tales that brings the nightmare right back and stabs you through the soul." (Guardian). The City. "Although this is the most disquieting play in London, there is a curious exhilaration about both the performance and Crimp's confrontation with our perpetual unease." (Guardian). Definitely the Bahamas. "A summation of a life lived vicariously, at the margins of other lives, between suffocating suburban walls; and the play is as unflinching as it is unnerving." (The Times). Play House. "Play House concerns the volatility and vulnerability of love, as a young couple, Simon and Katrina set up home...Unusually for Crimp, the play both begins and ends with moving declarations of love. Suddenly this usually chilly dramatist seems unexpectedly blessed with a warm heart." (Daily Telegraph). In the Republic of Happiness. "Crimp goes so far as to call it "an entertainment in three parts," and it rocks along like a dystopian vaudeville...The actors are imprisoned and liberated at once, their strange between-worlds condition a source of joy, intemperateness and above all a care for our diversion...My favourite play of the year." (What's on Stage).

Martin Crimp: Plays 3: Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

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 (Faber Drama)

Martin Crimp’s adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.\nA genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.\nCyrano’s generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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