The City is a mesmerising play by ground-breaking contemporary British playwright Martin Crimp. It takes the audience from the profoundly unsettling to the darkly comic. A couple, whose marriage seems to be disintegrating and, on top of that, the husband is facing the very real threat of redundancy, and a neighbour. Who or what is real in this ambiguous and intriguing drama that explores urban living, urban anxieties, terrorism, global insecurity and the nature of fiction? The play is performed in English.
Profoundly unsettling. Darkly comic.
Clair wants to be kissed but not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny arrives to complain about the screaming children – but the garden’s empty, and the key to the playroom’s disappeared.
What is real and what is not? Groundbreaking contemporary British playwright Martin Crimp explores the threats, insecurities and anxieties of urban life in a surreal and collapsing world.
