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The City
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 1m
The City
by Martin Crimp
"And I know what you're thinking: you're thinking it must be pretty easy to kill people who are simply clinging on to life. But the people clinging on to life are the most dangerous people of all." Clair wan's to be kissed - but not now - and certain…
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Cast Size
2w, 1m
Details
Summary
"And I know what you're thinking: you're thinking it must be pretty easy to kill people who are simply clinging on to life. But the people clinging on to life are the most dangerous people of all." Clair wan's to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wan's to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the'screaming children - but the garden's empty, and the key to the playroom's disappeared. Just what strange game is being played here? Three characters fight to make sense of a surreal and collapsing world.
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting Various simple settings
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Martin Crimp
Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980s. His plays include: When we have sufficiently tortured each other (2019), Men Asleep (2018), The Rest Will be Familiar To You From Cinema (2013, voted by Germany’s Theater heute best foreign play of the ...