ISBN: 0413774279 9780413774279

Category: Drama / General

Page count: 298

<p><i>Marber Plays: 1 </i>brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London. <br><br><br><i>Dealer's Choice</i> premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 <i>Evening Standard </i>Award for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play.<br><br>'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.' <i>Financial Times</i><br><br><br><i>After Miss Julie </i>relocates August Strindberg's <i>Miss Julie </i>(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.<br><br><br><i>Closer</i>: '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 <i>Closer </i>he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams' <i>Streetcar</i>, Mamet's <i>Oleanna</i>, Albee's <i>Virginia Woolf</i>, Pinter's <i>Old Times </i>and Hare's <i>Skylight</i>.' <i>The Sunday Times</i></p>