9 April – 12 May 2018

9 April – 12 May 2018
Performances daily at 7.30pm, ex. Sundays
Ticket sales from 26 Feb 2018
Act 1:
Interval:
Act 2:
Play Ends
65 min
20 min
55 min
approx. at 9.50 pm
SYNOPSIS
Closer is the play that made Marber’s name as “the finest dramatist of his generation” and won him the Laurence Olivier and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards. It was filmed in 2004 starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman.
Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets “Anna” online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers…
In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. It’s being hailed as one of the best plays of the nineties, exposing the pain that comes with the territory of love.
Closer is a melancholy piece but it is also laugh-out-loud funny, often, as in the very best drama, at moments of starkest pain. – The Guardian
Patrick Marber’s searing follow-up to Dealer’s Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation. – Independent on Sunday
In Closer, Marber has written one of the best plays of sexual politics: it is right up there with Williams’ Streetcar, Mamet’s Oleanna, Albee’s Virginia Woolf, Pinter’s Old Times and Hare’s Skylight. – The Sunday Times
Cast & Creative Team
Alice
Dan
Larry
Anna
Directed by
Designed by
Lighting designed by
Programme Photos by
Fights directed by
Amanda Victoria Vilanova
Michael Edwards
Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
Claire Cordier
Emma Lucia Hands
Judith Croft
Nick Richings
Clive Moore
www.clivemoorephoto.com
Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
There will be one interval of twenty minutes.
The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever
are strictly prohibited.