Martin Crimp Books

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand’s extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero—Cyrano De Bergerac—and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage. This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.

This volume offers a "sampler" of Crimp's work. "No one Sees the Video" is a play criticising the consumer age, while the subject of "Getting Attention" is child abuse. "Stage Kiss" is the author's first published short fiction. Crimp has won the Radio Times Drama Award for his radio plays.

Not One of These People, a co-production between the Royal Court Theatre, Carte blanche, and the Carrefour international de theatre, premiered at Theatre La Bordee, Quebec City, in June 2022, and at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2022.

Attempts to describe her? Attempts to destroy her? Or attempts to destroy herself? Is Anne the object of violence? Or its terrifying practitioner? Martin Crimp's Attempts on her Life premiegrave;red at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, West Street, London in March 1997.

Far away a battle rages and an entire city is turned to dust. Amelia can't sleep. She waits for news of her husband. He's a great general and this seems to be a decisive victory. But when the motives for the war start to look disturbingly personal, his wife becomes desperate to hold on to his love.Martin Crimp's new play takes Sophocles' ancient story of marriage and violence - 'The Trachiniae' - and propels it into a modern world of political hypocrisy and emotional terrorism.Cruel and Tender was produced by Wiener Festwochen, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Young Vic, where it opened in London before premiering at the 2004 Vienna Festival.

I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong?A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of Martin Crimp's version of Marivaux's great comedy.

A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... the approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling.

Martin Crimp gilt als einer der klügsten britischen Dramatiker. Sein Schreiben ist von hoher Qualität, unsentimental und präzise. Er ist ein innovativer Beobachter, der unermüdlich an seiner Sprache arbeitet und Rhythmus sowie dramaturgisches Geschick meisterhaft verbindet.

Komorní drama mladého páru, který se odstěhoval do svého nového domu na venkově. Do rodinné idylky ovšem vniká tajuplná žena v bezvědomí, kterou Richard srazil autem. Postupně se odhaluje, že dívka rozhodně není neznámou náhodnou chodkyní a skrze to i fakt, že na venkov hrdinové hry ve skutečnosti utekli před svojí minulostí. Tu ale iluze spokojeného života těžko zakryje.