Ralph Reads 📚 "Closer" Screenplay by Patrick Marber [TV-14]

#PARENTALADVISORY : Rated (TV-14) for Mild Violence, Thematic Elements, Brutal Profanity, Suggestive Dialogue & Sexuality.

00:00:00 Netflix Spoof/Station Identification
00:00:10 Opening Theme
00:04:37 Chapter One
00:10:25 Chapter Two
00:15:39 Chapter Three
00:22:05 Chapter Four
00:28:27 Chapter Five
00:37:22 Chapter Six
00:44:31 Chapter Seven
00:49:29 Chapter Eight
00:54:35 Final Chapter
01:01:37 Closing Theme

On this winner of the #EveningStandardaward for Best Comedy, winner of the #CriticsCircleTheater and #laurenceolivier awards for Best New Play, this roller-coaster of a Comedy-Drama by Playwright Patrick Marber, built on desire and deception, the relationships of two couples become hopelessly entangled-and increasingly frayed-as lies and insecurites abound. Closer is no joke and it's got the brave, mature performances to show for it.

"In 'Closer', #PatrtickMarber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance., where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. #Closer is hailed as one of the best plays of the nineties"
#goodreads

"'Closer' has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done"
#LondonObserver

"Patrick Marber's play is as powerful and pertinent as ever'
#DonmarWarehouse #theguardian

"I once read an article that called it the anti-romantic comedy. I think of it as a human bible. The true lens into humanity, into raw emotion, into sadness and depression, into what love is, what it tries to be, and what it is not, what it can mean and can do. A lens shining a light on the human heart, its selfishness and its kindness alike, its undeniable complexities and simplicities"
#IkramAlMouaswas #medium

"Gender Wars On A Whole New Level: What is unique about 'Closer', making it seem right for these insincere times, is that the characters do not understand each other, or themselves. They know how to go through the motions of pushing the right buttons, and how to pretend their buttons have been pushed, but do they experience anything at all except their own pleasure?"
#RogertEbert

"Patrick Marber's landmark study of sex and power remains shockingly fresh. Long before extremely online feminists (such as myself) started bandying the phrase #ToxicMasculinity around, Patrick Marber was exploring the concept in his hit 1997 play-tuned-movie 'Closer'. It's a deeply twisted story of two men who woo, discard and swap girlfriends. It could easily feel dated, a relic of a time where female sexuality was viewed very differently.
#AliceSaville #TimeOutMagazine

"The lines are like daggers, obscene at times and always filled with truth, the delivery perfect. And humor is always around the corner."
#AndreaHelenDavid #LiveLondonPost

"Amidst raw heartbreak and remorse, 'Closer' is peppered with some effective black humor - which, unsurprisingly, takes firmest root in the frank discussions of sex. It also features what must be one of the first major scenes of an internet chat - a stark warning for parents worried about online porn"
#WhatsOnStage

"'Closer' is a play whcih touches on many unpalatable truths, but I think that's what good theater does"
#ClareLizzimore interview with #LynGardner for #stagedoordancer

"It was the first time I read the play and I was blown away by how honest, beautiful, brutal and funny it was."
#SamTroughton interview for #TheaterWeekly

"'Closer' is a passionate, occasionally loud and increasingly coarse in its progression - it has a ton of heavy talk and characters occasionally question their partners about the intimate details of infidelities. But the big payoff is its well crafted arc, lively and unpredictable as it traces the comings and goings of these four people over four years."
#HowardShapiro #whyy #PBS #npr

"Welcome to the profane world of #Closer, an acrid, scabrous delve into modern relationships from the poison pain of playwright Patrick Marber-"
#totalfilm

"There are a lot of great funny moments, but 'Closer' is anything but a comedy. It's a dark tale os Self-Loathing -, Self-Pity and Self-Discovery. Although the film is dark, and none of the characters are particularly likable, by the end you have witnessed their growth and have some hope that they would improve as people."
#RepairmanJack.com

"Flawed and cold, but sharp and haunting"
#imdb

"Frank, brutal and packed with a rarely-seen honesty about the intimate relationship between love and sex..."
#AllEndinburghTheater.com