{"product_id":"marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-9780413774279","title":"Marber Plays: 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick Marber\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarber Plays: 1 \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDealer's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard \u003c\/i\u003eAward for Best Comedy and, the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'An exceptionally accomplished first play . . . though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Miss Julie \u003c\/i\u003erelocates August Strindberg's \u003ci\u003eMiss Julie \u003c\/i\u003e(1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first 'naturalistic tragedy' the events of Strindberg's original are transposed to the night of the British Labour Party's 'landslide' election victory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloser\u003c\/i\u003e: 'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in \u003ci\u003eCloser \u003c\/i\u003ehe has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams' \u003ci\u003eStreetcar\u003c\/i\u003e, Mamet's \u003ci\u003eOleanna\u003c\/i\u003e, Albee's \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e, Pinter's \u003ci\u003eOld Times \u003c\/i\u003eand Hare's \u003ci\u003eSkylight\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45085080420503,"sku":"9780413774279","price":2653.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780413774279.webp?v=1767264911","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/marber-plays-1-after-miss-julie-closer-dealers-choice-9780413774279","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}