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Martin Crimp

September 2023

  • Dreamlike logic … Benjamin studying a score he is due to conduct.

    ‘I threw my pop records in the bin’: George Benjamin on his defining moments – and his latest opera

    As Picture a day Like this comes to the London stage, the composer speaks about finding his dream collaborator, entering ‘a different dimension’ with Olivier Messiaen – and the day Disney changed his life

November 2022

  • Martin Crimp in Not One of These People.

    The week in theatre: Not One of These People; Not Now; Super High Resolution – review

  • Royal Court Theatre Not One of These People Written by Martin Crimp Directed by Christian Lapointe Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Production pictures taken by Carla Chable de la Héronnière

    Not One of These People review – the playwright as puppet-master

June 2022

  • Siena Kelly, Jake Davies and Priyanga Burford in That Is Not Who I Am.

    The week in theatre: That Is Not Who I Am; The False Servant

  • Carefree yet controlled … Lizzy Watts as Chevalier and Will Brown as Trivelin in The False Servant.

    The False Servant review – deception, disguise and filthy lucre

January 2022

  • Michael Billington

    Britain’s indifference to Molière’s 400th is no surprise but it’s still shameful

    Michael Billington
    Despite some clever reimaginings of Tartuffe, the UK’s stages remain depressingly inattentive to one of the world’s greatest playwrights

March 2020

  • Peter Brook reads a play in the bath.

    Lockdown culture
    All the world's a page: the joy of scripts during theatre's shutdown

    As venues close due to Covid-19, there’s a world of published drama to savour, from text that falls off the page to Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘undirectable’ collage

December 2019

  • Cyrano de Bergerac. James McAvoy (Cyrano de Bergerac). Credit - Marc Brenner.117 Playhouse Theate, Dec 2019

    Cyrano de Bergerac review – James McAvoy is fierce in radical reboot of romantic classic

    Visual flummery and the famous nose are dispensed with in Martin Crimp’s modern take on Rostand’s proxy-wooing play

October 2019

  • Julia Bullock.

    Zauberland review – after horrors, a feeling of 'so what' remains

    Crimp, Foccroulle, Mitchell and Schumann combine their considerable forces to tell a shocking story, inspired by the Syrian conflict, that fails to have the impact it should

July 2019

  • Dominique Reymond and Solène Arbel in The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema, by Martin Crimp.

    The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema review – flesh-and-blood take on the Oedipus curse

    Martin Crimp’s version of Euripides’ Phoenician Women is sly and violent, while its sphinx’s riddles read like exam questions from hell

March 2019

  • Follies

    From Sondheim to Dr Seuss: the jaw-dropping designs of Vicki Mortimer – in pictures

    The ghostly showgirls of Follies, Wayne McGregor’s spellbinding Raven Girl and the madcap world of The Cat in the Hat have all been realised by the designer, who looks back at five of her key shows

January 2019

  • Cate Blanchett in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other.

    The week in theatre: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other and more – review

  • Cate Blanchett in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other.

    Pamela's power: the novel behind Cate Blanchett's controversial new play

  • Cate Blanchett in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other

    When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other review – it's explicit but hardly shocking

  • Cate Blanchett, about to open in When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other.

    Cate Blanchett on her S&M-themed play: 'I see theatre as a provocation'

November 2018

  • Luke Mullins (Solange) and Jake Fairbrother (Claire) in The Maids at Home Manchester.

    The Maids review – Jean Genet's would-be murderers set pulses racing

  • Ayesha Dharker, Naomi Frederick, Assad Zaman, Amanda Wilkin, Tony Jayawardena, Philip Bird, Karl Queensborough, Michele Austin, Sid Sagar and Ayesha Antoine in White Teeth at the Kiln, London.

    The week in theatre: White Teeth; Dealing With Clair – review

October 2018

  • Tom Mothersdale and Hara Yannas in Dealing With Clair. Photographs: Richard Davenport/The Other Richard

    Dealing With Clair review – Martin Crimp's fierce swipe at pious yuppies

    This revival gains an eerie topicality, yet its ingenious study of moneyed hypocrisy makes it truly timeless

June 2018

  • Cate Blanchett

    Cate Blanchett to debut at National Theatre in new Martin Crimp play

    Actor is cast opposite Stephen Dillane in production to be directed by Katie Mitchell

May 2018

  • Embargo on image use until 9.45pm on 10-05-18.<br>Stephane Degout (King) and Gyula Orendt (Gaveston) in Lessons In Love And Violence by George Benjamin @ Royal Opera House. Text by Martin Crimp. Conducted by George Benjamin. Directed by Katie Mitchell. (Opening 10-05-18) ©Tristram Kenton 05/18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Lessons in Love and Violence review – soaring tale of a brutal royal downfall

    George Benjamin’s modern-day retelling of Edward II’s demise is a bleak, lustrous opera that places a gay love story it its centre
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