Writing for Nothing: Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera

Name: Writing for Nothing: Fiction, Short Plays, Texts for Opera
Brand: Faber & Faber
Price: 17.58 EUR
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English

By (author): Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp's Writing for Nothing collects texts written over the last thirty years. Included here are short plays, unmistakably the work of the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life; texts for opera, beginning with the modern masterpiece Written on Skin, created with composer George Benjamin; and two stories that provide a new perspective on Crimp, revealing a writer capable of bringing all of his brilliance to prose.
Unsettling, elegant and incisive, Writing for Nothing is a vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.

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Weight: 190g
Dimensions: 125 x 197mm
Publication Date: 17 Jan 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780571354009

About Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for theatre includes When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other Men Asleep The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema In the Republic of Happiness Play House The City Fewer Emergencies Cruel and Tender The Country The Treatment Getting Attention No One Sees the Video Play with Repeats Dealing with Clair and Definitely the Bahamas. He is also the author of three texts Into the Little Hill Written on Skin and Lessons in Love and Violence for operas by George Benjamin. His many translations of French plays include works by Genet Ionesco Koltès Marivaux and Molière.