Closer - Acting Edition
In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer is being hailed as one of the best new plays of the nineties, and as the...
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In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer is being hailed as one of the best new plays of the nineties, and as the London Observer noted, it "has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780822217220 (0822217228)
Publish date: January 1st 2000
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages no: 72
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Romance,
20th Century,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre
Very much a play of its time (especially the rise of the In-Yer-Face theatrical movement of the 90s) but still fresh and interesting today. Veering between witty and heartbreaking, Closer analyses the human relationships and how something so intimate and beautiful as sex and love can ultimately be a...
A surprisingly more thorough relationship between the four protagonists in the book/play than was portrayed in the movie. The extra dialogue did make you understand Dan a bit more, and it made him even more unlikable. It makes me appreciate the screen version even more, because I can see how the ext...
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