Closer (play)

Closer
Grove edition cover
Written byPatrick Marber
CharactersDan
Alice (Jane Jones)
Anna
Larry
Date premiered22 May 1997
Place premieredCottesloe Theatre
London
Original languageEnglish
SubjectA quartet of strangers in a sexual square dance in which partners are constantly swapped, caught between desire and betrayal.
GenreDrama, melodrama
SettingLondon, 1990s
Poster of the theater performance "Hautnah" by Patrick Marber, Theater im OP (ThOP) Guest performance in [dots], Göttingen 2015[1]

Closer (1997) is a dramatic play by British playwright Patrick Marber. It premiered at the Royal National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in London in 1997 and made its North American debut at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on 25 January 1999.

It was adapted by Marber for the 2004 film of the same name, produced and directed by Mike Nichols.

  1. ^ ThOP, Theater im OP. "ThOP - Das Universitätstheater Göttingen :: Hautnah - Patrick Marber :: 09 - 2015". www.thop.uni-goettingen.de (in German). Retrieved 25 February 2018.