The Country

The Country

The Country

The Country

The Country

Overview

Richard and his wife Corinne have moved to the country to start a new life, but for Richard this also means kicking his crippling drug addiction. One night he brin's home a young American, Rebecca, claiming to have found her unconscious by the roadside, but Corinne is justifiably suspicious and takes the first opportunity to interrogate the girl. It gradually emerges that all is not as it seems, and so begins a chain of even's that sees their rural idyll smashed by adultery and alienation. Contained in the volume Martin Crimp: Plays 2

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  • Time Period: Contemporary

Authors

Martin Crimp

Martin Crimp was born in 1956 and began writing for theatre in the 1980s. His plays include: When we have sufficiently tortured each other (2019), Men Asleep (2018), The Rest Will be Familiar To You From Cinema (2013, voted by Germany’s Theater heute best foreign play of the ...

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