Martin Crimp
The Writer and the Work
Will be published approx. on 28. April 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-80596-796-5 (ISBN)
Description
This edited collection reflects on British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) and his remarkable and multifaceted career in theatre and opera, offering an interdisciplinary, collaborative and internationalist analysis of one of the most unique authorial voices globally in the recent and contemporary period. While taking stock of Crimp's output across different theatre and performance genres as well as cultural and production contexts, the volume's contributors are motivated not merely by looking back, but by strongly engaging with the present and future of this extraordinary writer.
The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Elisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp's writing and process.
The volume locates Crimp as a groundbreaking figure in literary and artistic traditions in the United Kingdom and beyond, all the while recognising that his output transcends categorisation and occupies a singular and distinctive space. Co-edited by Vicky Angelaki (Sweden), Elisabeth Angel-Perez (France) and Clara Escoda (Spain), three leading research experts in Martin Crimp Studies internationally, the volume additionally features contributions by a team of prominent academic authors whose individual work has also served to create and define this field across different literary, artistic and cultural contexts. A key feature of the book is a major new and extensive interview with Martin Crimp by Aleks Sierz, offering valuable elucidation of crucial aspects of Crimp's writing and process.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80596-796-5 (9781805967965)
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Persons
Vicky Angelaki is Professor in Comparative Literature at Mid Sweden University. Elisabeth Angel-Perez is Professor of English Literature and Drama at Sorbonne University. Clara Escoda is Lecturer in English Literature and Drama at the University of Barcelona.
Content
Martin Crimp: Timeline of Work
Aleks Sierz
Preface
Vicky Angelaki, Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Clara Escoda
Three Attempted Acts (In Lieu of Introduction)
The Vanishing Point
Vicky Angelaki
Portrait of the Writer as an Author
Elisabeth Angel-Perez
Martin Crimp's Women: Towards a Revolutionary Universality
Clara Escoda
1. Martin Crimp - Addressing Today's Challenges
'Sequences of Magic Rooms': The Writer in His Own Words
Aleks Sierz and Martin Crimp
'What Use to Me Is a Rusting Spike?': Gender Performativity and Fluidity of Desire in Martin Crimp's When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019)
Clara Escoda
Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema
Vicky Angelaki
In the Nightmare of Neoliberalism: Happiness as a Neoliberal Tool of Control in Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness
Albert Mendez Panades
2. Martin Crimp - The Concept of Community
Martin Crimp in the Company of European Nobel Laureates Jon Fosse and Elfriede Jelinek: A Comparison
Mary Mazzilli
'I begin to wonder if the whole thing might not just possibly be endless': Martin Crimp's Aesthetic and Ethical Probing of the Dramatic Medium in Not One of These People
Aloysia Rousseau
The Wizard Behind the Curtain: The Writer and the Written in the Work of Martin Crimp
Liz Tomlin
3. Martin Crimp - Found in Translation
Making Room for Music: Crimp's Operatic Dramaturgy
Elisabeth Angel-Perez
Writing for Translation: Martin Crimp's Invitation to Translate
Geraldine Brodie
Traces of Martin Crimp on the Italian Stage
Andrea Peghinelli
Martin Crimp: Millennial Challenge for the Greek Stage
Elizabeth Sakellaridou
Aleks Sierz
Preface
Vicky Angelaki, Elisabeth Angel-Perez and Clara Escoda
Three Attempted Acts (In Lieu of Introduction)
The Vanishing Point
Vicky Angelaki
Portrait of the Writer as an Author
Elisabeth Angel-Perez
Martin Crimp's Women: Towards a Revolutionary Universality
Clara Escoda
1. Martin Crimp - Addressing Today's Challenges
'Sequences of Magic Rooms': The Writer in His Own Words
Aleks Sierz and Martin Crimp
'What Use to Me Is a Rusting Spike?': Gender Performativity and Fluidity of Desire in Martin Crimp's When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (2019)
Clara Escoda
Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema
Vicky Angelaki
In the Nightmare of Neoliberalism: Happiness as a Neoliberal Tool of Control in Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness
Albert Mendez Panades
2. Martin Crimp - The Concept of Community
Martin Crimp in the Company of European Nobel Laureates Jon Fosse and Elfriede Jelinek: A Comparison
Mary Mazzilli
'I begin to wonder if the whole thing might not just possibly be endless': Martin Crimp's Aesthetic and Ethical Probing of the Dramatic Medium in Not One of These People
Aloysia Rousseau
The Wizard Behind the Curtain: The Writer and the Written in the Work of Martin Crimp
Liz Tomlin
3. Martin Crimp - Found in Translation
Making Room for Music: Crimp's Operatic Dramaturgy
Elisabeth Angel-Perez
Writing for Translation: Martin Crimp's Invitation to Translate
Geraldine Brodie
Traces of Martin Crimp on the Italian Stage
Andrea Peghinelli
Martin Crimp: Millennial Challenge for the Greek Stage
Elizabeth Sakellaridou