Dealing with Clair (NHB Modern Plays)

Clair works in real estate.
Mike and Liz are selling.
James wants to buy.
He'll only deal with Clair.

Martin Crimp's play Dealing with Clair premiered in 1988 at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. This edition was published alongside a new production of the play at the Orange Tree, in October 2018, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.

'A skilfully written, well-crafted exposition of the horrors just beneath the civilised surface of our lives; it is at once a delicious satire on yuppie moral and emotional bankruptcy and a bleak, black comedy thriller' - Independent

Auteur

Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for the theatre in the 1980s. Attempts on her Life, written in 1997, established his international reputation, and the plays that followed - among them, The Country, Cruel and Tender (written for director Luc Bondy), The City and In the Republic of Happiness - have been seen by audiences across the world.