{"product_id":"marber-plays-1-by-patrick-marber-9780413774279","title":"Marber Plays: 1","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarber Plays: 1\u003c\/i\u003e brings together three of this award-winning playwright's first plays produced at the National Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDealer's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1995 and subsequently transferred to the West End. It won the 1995 \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Best Comedy and the Writers' Guild for Best West End Play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An exceptionally accomplished first play . . . though I know nothing about poker, I testify to the compulsive grip this play exerts and to the accumulation of meanings it ignites in your head.' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Miss Julie\u003c\/i\u003e relocates August Strindberg's \u003ci\u003eMiss Julie\u003c\/i\u003e (1888) to an English country house in July 1945. In this radical re-imagining of theatre's first 'naturalistic tragedy' the events of Strindberg's original are transposed to the night of the British Labour Party's 'landslide' election victory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCloser\u003c\/i\u003e: 'Love and sex are like politics: it's not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do. Patrick Marber understands this perfectly, and in \u003ci\u003eCloser\u003c\/i\u003e he has written one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williams' \u003ci\u003eStreetcar\u003c\/i\u003e, Mamet's \u003ci\u003eOleanna\u003c\/i\u003e, Albee's \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e, Pinter's \u003ci\u003eOld Times\u003c\/i\u003e and Hare's \u003ci\u003eSkylight\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596885016812,"sku":"9780413774279","price":86.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780413774279-marber-plays-1.jpg?v=1777943781","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/marber-plays-1-by-patrick-marber-9780413774279","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}