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Informationen zum Autor Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for theatre includes Not One of These People , When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Men Asleep , The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema , In the Republic of Happiness , Play House , The City , Fewer Emergencies , Cruel and Tender , The Country , The Treatment , Getting Attention , No One Sees the Video , Play with Repeats , Dealing with Clair and Definitely the Bahamas . He is also the author of three texts, Into the Little Hill , Written on Skin and Lessons in Love and Violence , for operas by George Benjamin. His many translations of French plays include works by Genet, Ionesco, Koltès, Marivaux and Molière. Writing for Nothing , a collection of fiction, short plays and texts for opera, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. Klappentext I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. Just you remember. Lust and avarice trample on the finer feelings of love in this subversive take on sexual manners and the cruelties of courtship. The man thinks that marriage is simply a matter of money and property. But just how far should the woman go to prove him wrong?A world of darker meaning lies beneath the wit and verbal exuberance of Martin Crimp's version of Marivaux's great comedy. Zusammenfassung I may be your servant in the theatre, but in real life, sweetheart, you are my sex-slave. Just you remember.
