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The Treatment

Martin Crimp author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Nick Hern Books

Published:27th Apr '17

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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.

'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 Theat

  • Joint winner of Joint Winner of the John Whiting Award 1993

ISBN: 9781848426627

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80 pages