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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1997

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Faber & Faber, London

1997

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Martin Crimp's coolly European meditation in 17 scenes on a woman, also called Anne - who may be a terrorist on the run, or an artist who has turned her suicide attempts into her art, or a traveller who has her photo taken by millionaires' swimming pools and in slums, or a woman whose children have been slaughtered in civil war, or even a child herself - is not an easy text for any director. And particularly not for one right at the start of her career and without lots of resources. Lyn Gardner, Guardian

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1980

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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1997

Theatre de Complicite

Faber & Faber, London

1997

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Adaptation

2

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Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

Synopsis: In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered stories

Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London >>>

2008

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Synopsis: "And I know what you're thinking: you're thinking it must be pretty easy to kill people who are simply clinging on to life. But the people clinging on to life are the most dangerous people of all." Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here? Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.

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1980

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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

2000

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Faber & Faber, London

2000

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Synopsis: 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 play is a spare and glitteringly written dissection of desire and despair.

Festival Theatre, Chichester, UK >>>

2004

Wiener Festwochen

Faber & Faber, London

2004

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Adaptation

5

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Notes: Original Playwright - Sophocles, adapted from Trachiniae

Synopsis: 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

Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>

1988

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Nick Hern Books, London

1988

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Play/Drama

3

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Synopsis: Claire, a young estate agent introduces couple to rich purchaser, but he is only after Claire

London

1987

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Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London >>>

2002

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Faber & Faber, London

2002

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Short Play

One Act

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Synopsis: 'At a bare 15 minutes, Martin Crimp's latest play stops at the point where most plays are getting going, but you don't feel cheated. This is a miniature only in terms of length, and it is treated as big as it deserves in Katie Mitchell's impeccable and impeccably acted production. 'A man is telling a story to two other people in a bare office - a murderous story about a massacre. He tells of a man who walks into a school and shoots the receptionist in the mouth. He moves on to a classroom where he takes out the teacher. Then he starts on the children, one by one. 'At first you think that the three people are probably colleagues developing a screenplay, perhaps one of those trashy made-for-TV movies that feed on real-life horror stories. After a short while, it becomes apparent that this is some kind of performance. The man telling the story keeps needing, much to his annoyance, to be prompted by a woman who is sitting in the audience with a copy of the script. In the final section, the man stands in front of a microphone and sings a bluesy ballad about a postman who one morning refuses to get up. Something has snapped. There is a voice in his head telling him to do something unspeakable. There is no doubt that this is both a performance and yet it is also real. The distinctions between performance and story, actor and reality are entirely blurred. The song curls through the auditorium and into your brain like a whiff of smoke from a still-warm gun. It reeks of the exhaustion of someone who has carried anger around for longer than they can bear. 'Crimp does nothing so crass as to try to provide explanations for such monstrous events, the pop psychology that endlessly pontificates about abused childhoods or marital woes. Instead, this tale of ordinary, catastrophic madness is like looking the wrong way down a telescope at the quiet moment before the maelstrom, the deathly pause before the police move in with their white tape, and the TV cameras start rolling, and everyone wonders how the nice man with the nice house, wife and kids could do a thing like that. 'Watching Face to the Wall, you wonder why it doesn't happen more often.' - The Guardian

National, London

2004

National Theatre, London >>>

Faber & Faber, London

2004

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Translation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Marivaux

Synopsis: "For a writer often thought of as coldly mathematical, there is something strangely unresolved about this particular Marivaux play. Everything hinges on a young woman's disguise as a chevalier, ostensibly to witness first-hand the mercenariness of a potential husband, Lelio. Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself. Her apparent aim is to protect the countess's money and expose Lelio's deviousness. But is that her actual motive? Marivaux's real preoccupation is erotic power and the fluidity of gender. Unlike the Rodgers and Hammerstein heroine who enjoyed being a girl, Marivaux's protagonist clearly relishes being a man. She stresses her attractiveness, is ready to fight a duel with Lelio and, in two extraordinary seduction scenes, reduces the countess to grovelling humiliation. She may, in Crimp's witty translation, sardonically announce, "I see blood on a regular basis," but she is driven by an androgynous narcissism that links her with the cross-dressing Dietrich and Hepburn heroines of 20th-century cinema. ", Guardian

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

2005

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Faber & Faber, london

2005

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Three Short Plays

One Act

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Notes: Whole Blue Sky, Face To The Wall, Fewer Emergencies

Synopsis: 'Things are definitely looking up - brighter light - more frequent boating - more confident smile - things are improving day by day - who ever would've guessed?'

Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>

1984

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West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, UK

1991

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Nick Hern Books, London

1991

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Play/Drama

4

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Synopsis: Devastating probe into the problems of child abuse

Young Vic Theatre, London >>>

2007

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Translation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Part of The Big Brecht Fest: Brecht Double Bill 1 Literal translation by Simon Scardifield

Synopsis: Berlin - the city of Jews. A woman reassures her friends and packs her life into a suitcase.
The Theatre List

London

1987

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London

1982

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London

1982

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Adaptation

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Notes: written with Howard Curtis, work by Jerzy Przedziecki

Synopsis:

Young Vic Theatre, London >>>

1999

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Faber & Faber, London

1999

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Translation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Jean Genet

Synopsis: the fantasies of two maids who are sisters as they enact their vicious charade

Young Vic Theatre, London >>>

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Faber & Faber, London

1996

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Adaptation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Moliere

Synopsis: comedy of manners centres on highly principled man who cannot bring himself to temper the truth with tact

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1990

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Nick Hern Books, London

1991

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Synopsis: A report on the consumer age, cool, hard, and ferociously funny" Observer

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in Frontline Drama 6: New French Plays, Methuen, London

1998

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Notes: Original Playwright - Christophe Pellet

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Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>

1989

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Nick Hern Books, London

1989

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Play/Drama

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Synopsis: Centring on "an earnest inadequate, the kind of man who starts talking to strangers in pubs, the play becomes progressively chillier and more violent" Daily Telegraph

Royal Court Theatre, London, EUR >>>

2007

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Faber & Faber, London

2007

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Translation

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doubling

Notes: Original Playwright - Eugene Ionesco

Synopsis: When a rhinoceros charges across the town square one Sunday afternoon, Berenger thinks nothing of it. Soon, however, rhinoceroses are popping up everywhere and Berengers whole world is under threat. What will it take for him to stand up to the increasing menace of rhinocerisation? Ionesco's iconic satire on apathy and conformity is given its first major UK revival since its Roval Court vremiere in 1960.

The Pit, London

1997

Royal Shakespeare Company >>>

Methuen Drama, London >>>

1997

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Notes: Original Playwright - Bernard-Marie Koltes

Synopsis: tells the story of Roberto Zucco, a criminal driven to murder and brutal rape by a culture that at once rejects and worships him. Zucco's alienation--as outcast and as celebrity--provides a framework for Koltes's ironic, bitter commentary on the rampant dysfunctionality of a society that values money above love and self-interest even higher

Lyttelton, London

2006

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Faber & Faber, London

2006

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Adaptation

7

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servants

Notes: Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

Synopsis: This pared-down version of Chekhov's first great play reveals the full force of its comedy and cruelty - whether it's love, sex, incredible fame, or simply a trip into town, each character is denied the thing they most crave.

London

1987

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Royal Court Theatre, London >>>

1993

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Nick Hern Books, London

1993

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Play/Drama

5

3

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Notes: winner of the John Whiting award

Synopsis: Two film producers offer to buy story of wife running from oppression and end up buying her body and mind

Almeida Theatre, London >>>

1999

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Faber & Faber, London

1999

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Translation

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Notes: Original Playwright - Marivaux

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Orange Tree, Richmond, UK >>>

1985

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