Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp ( born 1956 in Dartford, Kent ) is an English playwright.

Life

Crimp studied at Cambridge English literature. Since the 1980s, he writes pessimistic dramas, at their concert, he closely with the director Katie Mitchell works, plays, opera libretti, and screenplays, 2007, he wrote about the screenplay by François Ozon's Angel - A life like a dream with. Even for the shoot, he was awarded the 1993 John Whiting Award, but only attacks on Anne, 1997 premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, where the conflicting claims verschiedenenr people on the character and life of the absent main character is to be closed, made ​​him the international Star. The also very successful piece in the country in 2000 revolves around the doctor Richard, who pulls allegedly in search of the idyll with the family to the countryside, but there the living conditions represent more complex than a mistress of him shows up. Fewer Emergencies (2005) is a play about the phenomenon rampage. The rest you know from the movies, a processing of the " Phoenician Women " of Euripides, was premiered on November 24, 2013 at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg.

Own works (excerpt)

  • Love Games 1982
  • Living Remains, 1982
  • Dealing with Clair ( Trade with Clair ), 1988
  • Play with Repeats (play with repetitions ), 1989
  • The Treatment ( Rotary ), UA 1993
  • Attempts on her life ( attacks on Anne ), 1997
  • The Country, UA 2000, ( In the country ), dt EA, 2001 in Bochum, directed by Dieter Giesing
  • Fewer Emergencies ( Less emergencies ), 2005
  • The City ( City ), 2008
  • In the Republic of Happiness ( In the Republic of happiness ), UA 2012, dt EA November 28, 2013 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
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