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Patrick Marber’s exquisite script for Closer first hit London’s West End in 1997. The play went on to win the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and reached new audiences when it was adapted by Marber himself for the screen in 2004, when it feIntimacy without the chemistry
Patrick Marber’s exquisite script for Closer first hit London’s West End in 1997. The play went on to win the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, and reached new audiences when it was adapted by Marber himself for the screen in 2004, when it featured a stellar cast that included Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and an especially unforgettable Natalie Portman. It is a beautifully written piece: crude, sharp and witty all at once, and 20 years down the line its themes remain as relevant and current as ever. The play is essentially one that sets truth as its central theme. We meet four characters, all living in London – Dan, Larry, Alice and Anna: journalist, doctor, stripper and photographer – who at the start of the play are complete strangers to each other and who by the end of it find their lives to be inextricably linked in twisted forms of intimate personal relationships. All four characters, who each have strained relationships with the truth, are themselves desperately seeking their own fundamental truths. To achieve this aim they use intimacy as their primary currency, trading in it, using and abusing of it, rewarding and withholding it as the action goes... Read more