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Closer

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 2m

Patrick Marber

There's a moment. There's always a moment. Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry.

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Closer

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    2w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades

  • Winner! 1998 Olivier Award for Best New Play
    Nominee: 1998 Tony Award for Best Play


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Summary

This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers. Critically-beloved since its 1997 debut, Closer a taut, tense look at modern love and lust. 


Keywords
Performing Groups
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)

Media

“CLOSER is a sad, savvy, often funny play that casts a steely, unblinking gaze at the world of relationships and lets you come to your own conclusions…CLOSER does not merely hold your attention; it burrows into you.” —New York Magazine.

“…a brilliant and bracingly adult new play from London…bruising and beautiful, shatteringly funny and devastatingly sad. The play’s dialogue has a raw emotionality rarely heard in art or life. It cuts like broken glass…full of bitter, intelligent, unvarnished truth. —Variety.

“A powerful, darkly funny play about the cosmic collision between the sun of love and the comet of desire.” —Newsweek.

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He began his career as a writer in 1986. He co-wrote and appeared in a number of radio and television programmes including The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You. In 1995 his first play, Dealer’s Choice, premiered at the National ...
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