YouTube. Martin Crimp. Martin Andrew Crimp (born 14 February 1956, Dartford, Kent) is a British playwright.
Crimp is sometimes described as a practitioner of the "in-yer-face" school of contemporary British drama, although he rejects the label.[1] He is notable for the astringency of his dialogue, a tone of emotional detachment, a bleak view of human relationships – none of his characters experience love or joy – and latterly, a concern for theatrical form and language rather than an interest in narrative. Career[edit] The son of John Crimp, a British Rail signalling engineer, and his wife Jennie, Crimp's family moved in 1960 to Streatham where he attended a local primary school before winning a scholarship to Dulwich College. But when his father was transferred to York, he went to the nearby Pocklington School, where he showed an aptitude for languages, music, English literature and theatre.
His first six plays were performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. Plays[edit] Libretto[edit] Translations[edit] Theatre review: Fewer Emergencies at Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Martin Crimp's most famous play is Attempts on her Life.
His latest, hour-long piece could easily have been christened More Attempts on her Life. Fewer Emergencies consists of three short dramas that take his audience into a sinister world that brings to mind the plays of such writers as Caryl Churchill, Wallace Shawn and the late Sarah Kane. The last analogy may not be entirely surprising since the director is James Macdonald who has directed three Kane plays at the Royal Court although not the one that this most closely resembles, Crave. For most of the time, three actors languidly deliver lines which together build up to portray a series of events that may be linked. In the first piece, entitled Whole Blue Sky, they sit in Tom Pye's white box theatre (even the audience's seats are covered in white cloth) and gradually reveal a tale of an unhappy marriage from the wife's side. What starts as passion becomes marriage and soon enough motherhood gives way to hatred. Martin Crimps Plays. Advice To Iraqi Women Synopsis: Notes: part of A ROYaL WeLCOMe readings to celebrate the visit of George W Bush 1st Produced: Company: 1st Published: Music: To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Parts:
