Book description
A guide to all of the plays of Martin Crimp. For a decade, Martin Crimp
has been in the vanguard of new writing for the British stage. His main
stage plays include Dealing with Clair, The Treatment, Attempts on Her
Life, The Country, and Cruel and Tender, with his 1997 masterpiece,
Attempts on Her Life, arguably being one of the best plays of the past
quarter century. By the author of the landmark study of contemporary
British drama, In-Yer-Face Theatre, this is the first study of Martin
Crimp's work for stage and radio. Arguing that Crimp is one of the most
acute satirists of contemporary British society, Aleks Sierz provides an
accessible and fascinating account of the playwright's work. As well as
an account of each of Crimp's plays and an analysis of his oeuvre, the
volume includes a wide-ranging interview with Crimp himself and
interviews with all the key directors responsible for staging his work,
including Sam Walters, Katie Mitchell, James Mcdonald and Lindsay
Posner. Aleks Sierz is the theatre critic of Tribune and a freelance
theatre reviewer. He is a lecturer in modern British theatre whose
seminal study, In-Yer-Face Theatre, defined a new generation of writers
and their work and went on to become a best-selling title.
