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Martin Andrew Crimp (born 14 February 1956 in Dartford, Kent) is a British playwright . Early life and career. 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.
Mar 10, 2012 · Playwright Martin Crimp is one of British theatre’s best-kept secrets. Although his neon-lit name appears in the theatre capitals of Europe, with his work a big hit at festivals all over the continent, here he is better known to students - who love his 1997 masterpiece Attempts on Her Life - than to ordinary theatregoers.
Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets... ...Martin Crimp's play Dealing with Clair is a darkly comic drama about greed and social conformism. It was first performed at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, on 13 October 1988. The play is set in London.
British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) earned international recognition with his 1997 play Attempts on her Life. Other plays include Definitely the Bahamas (1987), Dealing with Clair (1989), The Country (2000), The City (2008), Men Asleep (2018), In the Republic of Happiness (2012), Cruel & Tender (2004) and The rest will be familiar to you ...
Dec 10, 2012 · Interview: Martin Crimp in the Republic of Satire. The innovative playwright discusses his unseasonal new play for the Royal Court Theatre. by Aleks Sierz Monday, 10 December 2012. Making a point: director Dominic Cooke and the cast of Crimp's new play Johan Persson. Playwright Martin Crimp defies labels.
Oct 20, 2006 · Abstract. Martin Crimp is one of the most exciting British playwrights to have emerged since the 1980s: his work is characterized by its vision of contemporary society as a place of social decay, moral compromise, and barely suppressed violence.
Playwright Martin Crimp is the most innovative and original British theatre writer to have emerged in the past 35 years. In every play, he has experimented in matching innovative new forms to his content, which is invariably critical of social norms and of consumer capitalism.
