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Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the…

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The Theatre of Martin Crimp

Aleks Sierz (Author, Freelance arts journalist)

For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of writing for the British stage. This work is the study of Martin Crimp’s work for stage and radio. Arguing…

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The Theatre of Martin Crimp

Aleks Sierz (Author, Freelance arts journalist)

For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of writing for the British stage. This work is the study of Martin Crimp’s work for stage and radio. Arguing…

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Martin Crimp Plays 1: Dealing with Clair; Play with Repeats; Getting Attention; The Treatment

Martin Crimp

This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp’s reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair…

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Writing for Nothing: Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera

Martin Crimp

A vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.

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The Hamburg Plays

Martin Crimp

This volume presents two plays written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and not yet staged in English.

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Dealing with Clair

Martin Crimp

A satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller.

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The Treatment

Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp’s razor-sharp satire about a world in which people are products, movies are money and sex sells.

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Martin Crimp: Plays 3: Fewer Emergencies; Cruel and Tender; The City; In the Republic of Happiness

Martin Crimp

The latest collection of plays confirms Martin Crimp’s reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today.

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The City

Martin Crimp

Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world in this darkly comic mystery.

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Not One Of These People

Martin Crimp

If you think you know what it's like to be me you are seriously deluded.

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Martin Crimp Plays 2: The Country, Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country

Martin Crimp

This second collection of Martin Crimp’s work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country. ‘Crimp writes with extraordinary precision ……

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Attempts on Her Life

Martin Crimp

Attempts on Her Life is a slice of theatre which takes fragments from life and slowly pieces them together. Each fragment is apparently enclosed, but when read as a whole…

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The Theatre of Martin Crimp epub

Aleks Sierz

For a decade, Martin Crimp has been in the vanguard of writing for the British stage. This work is the study of Martin Crimp’s work for stage and radio. Arguing…

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The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange

Vicky Angelaki,K. Reilly

This book rigorously examines the work of leading contemporary playwright Martin Crimp. It examines his plays, adaptations, translations and versions, treats them as texts and performance events and argues that…

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Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

Vicky Angelaki

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

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Lessons in Love and Violence (Vocal Score)

Lessons in Love and Violence is Benjamin and Crimp's third operatic collaboration, following Into the Little Hill and the critically acclaimed Written on Skin. This first edition vocal score is…

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Picture a day like this (text for music)

Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the…

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When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: Twelve Variations on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

Martin Crimp

Using Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela as a provocation, six characters act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance.

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Pains of Youth

Martin Crimp

This is a shocking, erotically charged play by Austrian writer Ferdinand Bruckner, presented in a compelling new version by Martin Crimp.

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Lessons in Love and Violence (Libretto): An Opera in Two Parts

Lessons in Love and Violence is Benjamin and Crimp’s third operatic collaboration, following Into the Little Hill and the critically acclaimed Written on Skin.

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Picture a day like this (Limited Edition Full Score)

Shortlisted for Deluxe Edition of the Year at the Presto Music Awards 2023

Picture a day like this is the fourth operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose…

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Picture a day like this (First Edition Vocal Score)

Picture a day like this is the fourth collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp, whose acclaimed partnership produced Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence, and Into the…

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Martin Crimp, Edmond Rostand

A genius with language but convinced of his own ugliness Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.

Cyrano's generous offer…

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Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation

Martin Crimp

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.

Cyrano’s generous offer…

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The False Servant

Martin Crimp,Pierre Marivaux

I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. Just you remember.

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Martin Crimp’s Theatre: Collapse as Resistance to Late Capitalist Society

Clara Escoda Agusti

This book is a timely intervention in theatre studies which reads Martin Crimp’s plays in the context of contemporary, late capitalist societies of control or of “spectacle’, and explores how…

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