Patrick Marber
Birth date: September 19, 1964
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Judging by the era in which the drama was written, I had half-expected the play to be an in-your-face Sarah Kane exemplar. It was not as such. The dialogue between the characters impressed me as quite sparse, but not stiff. The language was colloquial, the type you'd expect from the characters invol...
Hated this. Others didn't.
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 discontinuos collection of short stories written by a bunch of the most successful Anglo-saxon writers of the 1990s. Of course there is a fil rouge as well as a purpose behind, something connected with help and equal rights for disadvantaged children led by a Nick Hornby idea.As it often happens, ...
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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