Böcker av Patrick Marber

"Closer" is a play which views love and sex like politics: its not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do.

Passion. Loyalty. Salvation. Small time semi-pro football, the non-league. A world away from the wealth and the television cameras. A young player touched with brilliance arrives from nowhere. An ambitious manager determines to make him his own. And the old soul of the club still has dreams of glory. A haunting and humorous new play about the dying romance of the great English game - and the tender, savage love that powers it.

Miss Julie is an aristocrat's daughter who, drunk after a party, flirts with her father's chauffeur and sets, in train, a series of events that lead to tragedy. This work, a version of Strindberg's classic "Miss Julie", features class suspicions and resentment, the erotic collusion of antagonists, and the struggle against repressive social mores.

The orchestra of Ridley Road, a state school, is to give a concert in Moscow at the European Festival of Youth, playing Tchaikovsky''s Fourth Symphony before an audience of cultural bigwigs. But their instruments have been impounded by Customs. Luckily, Alex, the Russian boy who cleans the hall, is a devout Pinball Wizard fan who comes up with a plan that saves everyone.|Large flexible cast

1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and Writers' Guild for Best West End Play

Three plays by multi-award winning playwright, Patrick Marber: an enthralling close-up of the demons which drive compulsive gamblers (Dealer's Choice); a reimagining of Strindberg's Miss Julie set on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945,and in Closer one of the best plays about sexual politics in the language.