Composition as Textual Illumination: Martin Crimp and George Benjamin Discuss Written on Skin
Watch a video of Martin Crimp in conversation with composer George Benjamin about their collaboration on the 2012 opera Written on Skin.
Composition as Textual Illumination: Martin Crimp and George Benjamin Discuss Written on Skin
Sounding Crimp’s Verbal Stage: The Translator’s Challenge
Elisabeth Angel-Perez, who contributes a longer article to the special issue, reflects on the challenges of translating Crimp’s world where ‘acts of language are all there is to “see”‘.
Writer or Director? The Case of Martin Crimp
Aleks Sierz, author of The Theatre of Martin Crimp, challenges the binary opposition of writer and director in Crimp’s work.
Keeping it Real: Stories and the Telling of Stories at the Royal Court
Dan Rebellato teases apart the reputation for realism at the Royal Court, where many of Crimp’s plays have premiered.
Interventions 24.2 (May 2014)
This new website provides a gateway to Contemporary Theatre Review, as well as online Interventions that add to and complement the themes and topics of the journal.
Comment: Sochi 2014
Following on from a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review on the 2012 London Games, Yana Meerzon and Lynne McCarthy address the cultural politics of the Sochi Olympics.