Patrick Marber
The week in theatre: Closer, The Tempest, The Darkest Part of the Night – review
Patrick Marber’s four-way passion play still adds up; Sean Holmes takes enjoyable liberties with his party island Tempest; and the heartfelt vies with the spelled out in Zodwa Nyoni’s new work
Kate Kellaway
07, Aug, 2022 @9:30 AM
Closer review – Patrick Marber’s daring drama turns 25
This intimate story of four-way romantic damage gains an extra edge in Clare Lizzimore’s slick revival
Arifa Akbar
21, Jul, 2022 @4:10 PM
Britain’s indifference to Molière’s 400th is no surprise but it’s still shameful
Despite some clever reimaginings of Tartuffe, the UK’s stages remain depressingly inattentive to one of the world’s greatest playwrights
Michael Billington
18, Jan, 2022 @7:21 AM
Maureen Lipman attacks casting of Helen Mirren as former Israeli PM Golda Meir
Actor says Meir’s Jewishness is ‘integral’ to role and that Ben Kingsley would ‘never be allowed’ to play Nelson Mandela
Andrew Pulver
05, Jan, 2022 @3:45 PM
Habeas Corpus review – Canon Throbbing is back in tragically unfunny farce
Patrick Marber revives Alan Bennett’s 1973 comedy with its trouserless salesman, randy vicar and retrograde Britishness
Arifa Akbar
14, Dec, 2021 @1:05 PM
Leopoldstadt in limbo: the crew of a West End hit on life after Covid-19
Tom Stoppard’s new play was dazzling critics and audiences alike when the pandemic struck. How did its writer, director and crew deal with the news?
Claire Armitstead and Killian Fox
14, Jun, 2020 @7:00 AM
Patrick Marber: ‘I’ll be in therapy for the rest of my life – if I can afford it’
The playwright and director on writing and depression, collaborating with Tom Stoppard, and reconnecting with his Jewish roots
Kate Kellaway
07, Mar, 2020 @3:00 PM
The week in theatre: Leopoldstadt; Death of England; Far Away – review
Tom Stoppard explores his Jewish heritage in what may be his final play
Susannah Clapp
16, Feb, 2020 @10:30 AM
Leopoldstadt review – Stoppard's family portrait is an elegiac epic
Patrick Marber directs Tom Stoppard’s sweeping story of a Jewish family in Vienna across six decades
Arifa Akbar
12, Feb, 2020 @11:00 PM
‘A gentleman at the poker table’: Al Alvarez remembered by Patrick Marber
The renowned playwright remembers the former Observer poetry editor as an influence, a poker partner and a gracious wit
Patrick Marber
28, Sep, 2019 @2:00 PM
How we made Closer – by Clive Owen and Patrick Marber
‘I wanted to write a Shakespearean scene with someone in disguise, so I went into a lesbian chatroom pretending to be a gay woman’
Interviews by Chris Wiegand
09, Jul, 2019 @5:00 AM
Pinter Five and Six review – starry cast bring shorter works into the spotlight
Jane Horrocks, Rupert Graves and others shine in Patrick Marber and Jamie Lloyd’s bold revivals of the playwright’s shorter plays
Michael Billington
06, Jan, 2019 @11:32 AM
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