Closer
 25 March-9 May 2010
Market Theatre - Laager Theatre
Written by Patrick Marber
Directed by Sello Maake ka-Ncube
Patrick Marber's Closer is a sad, savvy, often funny play that casts a steely, unblinking gaze at the world of relationships and lets you come to your own conclusions. Marber tells his story in short, staccato scenes in which the unsaid talks as loudly as the said. First performed at the Royal National Theatre 22 May 1997, Closer was made into a film in 2004, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Natalie Portman as Alice, Julia Roberts as Anna, Jude Law as Dan and Clive Owen as Larry.
Sello Maake directed this play with great success about ten years ago, with an all-white cast. He now returns to the play with a highly acclaimed all-black cast. The play is set in contemporary Johannesburg, and gains a new set of resonances in out present-day context.
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