The Treatment
Published on 27. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84842-662-7 (ISBN)
Description
New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell.
But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit.
Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The Treatment, was first seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner.
The Treatment was the joint winner of the 1993 John Whiting Award.
But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit.
Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The Treatment, was first seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner.
The Treatment was the joint winner of the 1993 John Whiting Award.
Reviews / Votes
'A sharp satire... what is striking is how, after nearly a quarter of a century, Crimp's play has acquired new potency' * Guardian * 'Disarmingly prescient... Crimp's dialogue has elliptical poetic snap and a canny ear' * Independent * 'Troubling, intoxicating and thoroughly entertaining' * The Times * 'Both sharply funny and profoundly disturbing... it shimmers with dark brilliance, and insight' * WhatsOnStage * 'Darkly entertaining... has a mordant wit, its darker energies underpinned by a strangely screwball quality' * Time Out * 'With its echoes of Pinter, this play is a brilliantly written, metaphor-rich, depiction of perversion and desire' * The Arts Desk * 'With hauntingly accurate observations of society and a writing style so instinctive and shrewd, it is one of the most ingeniously coined pieces of theatre I have ever seen' * A Younger Theatre *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84842-662-7 (9781848426627)
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Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for the theatre in the 1980s. Attempts on her Life, written in 1997, established his international reputation, and the plays that followed - among them, The Country, Cruel and Tender (written for director Luc Bondy), The City and In the Republic of Happiness - have been seen by audiences across the world.