First collection of plays by the author of Closer

Dealer's Choice 'I feel it's my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre -

A drama focusing on a quartet of strangers who fall in love and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal.

Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt es sich zum Ziel, das in-yer-face theatre in einen postmodernen diskursiven Kontext zu setzen, um erweiterten Bedeutungsspektren und Sinnzusammenhängen Raum zu bieten. Indem Figuren, Handlung, Zeit und Raum sowie Sprache ihrer repräsentationalen Funktion entbunden werden, verweisen sie metaisierend auf die eigene ontische Präsenz und die Pluralisierungen

Closer emerged as one of the most successful plays of the 1990s, and one with a continuing afterlife through the academy award nominated film adaptation in 2004. Although the work of dramatists such as Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill initially attracted the most critical and academic attention, Patrick Marber's Closer