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Closer
by Patrick Marber
Ensemble Theater
Petersplatz 1
1010 Vienna
7 - 19 May 2007
Directed by Adrienne Ferguson
Tickets:
et-info@ensembletheater.at
Tel.: 01-5353200
Premiere: 7 May
Talk back session: 11 May
Under the patronage of the British Embassy - a Talk Back Session with actors and director will be held after the performance on 11 May 2007! After which wine and snacks will be served. Reserve tickets fast!
Win a British Bookshop book voucher worth EUR 50, find out how at the performances.
‘One of the best plays of sexual politics... dark, passionate, humane' Sunday Times
Cast
Michael Smulik (Dan), Howard Nightingall (Larry), Katharina Sporrer ( Alice ), Heike Brunner (Anna)
Backstage
Produced by Sarah Hayes & Joanna Godwin-Seidl
Prdn. Mgr: Alina Cibea
Lighting Design: Wolfram Zoettl
Photography: Ine Gundersveen
Asst. to the Director: Nina Kusche
Front of House Mgr: Sharron Aubrey
Lighting Technician: Ensemble Theater
Stage Manager: Pamela Schermann
PR, Sponsorship: Joanna Seidl, Sarah Hayes, Mariyana Radeva, Natalie Cantini
Teacher Material: Juliet Najjar
Teacher Liaison: Natalie Cantini
Sponsors: Nestlé Food services, Coiffeur Kramer, Asmus Schuhe, Agent Provocateur.
About the play
"This British comedy-drama of coupling and uncoupling, instant attraction and inveterate infidelity, offers more than just a voyeur's peek inside somebody else's bedroom. It exposes the raw nerve of pain that comes with the territory of love, setting off sympathetic vibrations in anyone who has been there.
Marber writes in sound bytes... His language could make David Mamet blush. Be warned: this is no Victorian drawing room drama. Yet the dance of two couples – each in love with a significant other, yet drawn to the other's other – has all the elegance of an 18 th century gavotte."
Facts
Premiere evening 7 May 2007
No performances 13-14 May
Performances start 19.45
Ticket Price:
Regular Euro 17
Group Student(10+) Euro 9
Student Euro 12
Ticket reservations call:
01-535 32 00
Mo-Fr 14:00 - 18:00
et-info@ensembletheater.at
ticket@viennatheatreproject.at
www.ensembletheater.at
What the Press say!
‘Closer is such a shrewd piece of contempo-realism' Time Magazine
'A thrilling love story'
Evening Standard
'Smart sexy and sublimely funny' , New York Post
'Patrick Marber's searing follow-up establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation' Independent on Sunday
'Blisteringly well written... franker, more intelligent and fiercer than any new comedy of recent years' Daily Mail
About patrick Marber
Patrick Marber — Writer (and occasional director and actor) Patrick Marber was born in London in 1964. He was educated at Wadham College , Oxford . He worked as a stand-up comedian and was a co-writer for BBC2 and Radio 4. His first play, ‘ Dealer's Choice' , was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in February 1995. ‘ Closer' , premiered at the Royal National Theatre in May 1997, transferring to the West End in March 1998, and after great success was turned into a hit Hollywood film with Julia Roberts. His latest play, Howard Katz , opened at the Royal National Theatre in June 2001. In addition to directing his own plays, Marber has directed Craig Raine's 1953 (Almeida), Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (Royal National Theatre, Lyttleton), David Mamet's The Old Neighbourhood ( Royal Court ) and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (Comedy Theatre). He has most recently written the four times Oscar nominated film Notes on a Scandal starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett.
Thanks
With thanks to Ensemble Theater and Dan Melega for their kind support.