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

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

by Martin Crimp (Author)

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    Paperback 2019

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Synopsis

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 for 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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 17 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 0571354009
ISBN 13: 9780571354009
Book Overview: A vibrant and varied anthology of texts written over the last thirty years from the internationally acclaimed author of Attempts on Her Life.

Author Bio
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, Koltes, Marivaux and Moliere.