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LILY HALL
DAVID KAMBOURIS
AMANDA KINGSTON
JAMES TAYLOR

DIRECTED BY BENG OH
SOUND BY ROBERT HAREWOOD
LIGHTING MICHAEL JEWELL
COMPOSER JERRY LAU

http://closer-brightspace.blogspot.com/

Closer is the third play written by Patrick Marber. Set in contemporary London, it tells the story of four people in the "body business"[1] — Dan the obituary writer, Alice the stripper, Anna the photographer, and Larry the dermatologist — who over a period of years meet and fall in love. It has been described as a work that "gets under its audience’s skin, and ... not for the emotionally squeamish", a work in which "Marber is alert to the cruel inequalities of love, as the characters change partners in what sometimes comes over like a modern reworking of Coward’s Private Lives"[2].
Marber described the play's "construction" in an October 1999 interview:
The idea was always to create something that has a formal beauty into which you could shove all this anger and fury. I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure – the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play – and inelegant emotion.[2]
The play was made into a 2004 film of the same name, also written by Marber and directed by Mike Nichols. As part of the film adaptation, the seventh scene of the play was dissected, with various lines spread throughout the movie version[citation needed]. Marber was also able to eliminate dialogue from the play in scenes where film permits the actors to communicate nonverbally.[3]. Jokes from the play which proved to be dated were also omitted[3].