Martin Crimp

British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) earned international recognition with his 1997 play Attempts on her Life. Other plays include Definitely the Bahamas (1987), Dealing with Clair (1989), The Country (2000), The City (2008), Men Asleep (2018), In the Republic of Happiness (2012), Cruel & Tender (2004) and The rest will be familiar to you from cinema (2013), which had its French language premiere at Théâtre de Gennevilliers and the Festival d’Avignon (2019). Recent productions include When we have sufficiently tortured each other – 12 Variations on Samuel Richardson’s ‘Pamela’ (NT, 2019), Cyrano de Bergerac (London, BAM, New York 2022) and The Country (Théâtre du Rond Point, Paris, 2023). His first collaboration with George Benjamin was Into the Little Hill (Festival d’automne, 2006), followed by Written on Skin (Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (ROH, 2018). Additional musical collaborations include Zauberland (Bouffes du Nord, 2018) with Bernard Foccroulle and lyrics, drawn from his plays, for Roald van Oosten’s 2012 EP, 100% Happy. His first solo show as writer and performer, Not one of these people (2022), opened at the Carrefour International Theatre Festival, Québec City before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre; it will be revived at Montreal’s Usine C in autumn 2023. In 2020 Crimp was awarded the Nyssen-Bansemer Theatre Prize.