| Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice Contributor(s): Marber, Patrick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413774279 ISBN-13: 9780413774279 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 Annotation: This first collection of plays by a major young British playwright includes the landmark "Closer," which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play in 1999. Also here is his acclaimed "Dealer's Choice," his treatment of the demons that drive compulsive gamblers, and "After Miss Julie," his ingenious update of Strindberg's classic play. Patrick Marber has written extensively for television and radio in the UK. His plays have won numerous awards. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.49 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marber Plays: 1 brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London. 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 exceptionally accomplished first play . . . though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' Financial Times 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 to the night of the British Labour Party's 'landslide' election victory. 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 in the language: it is right up there with Williams' Streetcar, Mamet's Oleanna, Albee's Virginia Woolf, Pinter's Old Times and Hare's Skylight.' The Sunday Times |