"The gathering nihilism of this play has always been a challenge, and the brilliance of Marber’s own approach to his text was to monitor throughout the wounded hearts that lay beneath the savagery and hurt. ...Hunt’s performance remains the take-away topic of the night, even as the play around her this time out seems wrongly titled: this is 'Closer' presented as if it were actually titled Further."
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"Clare Lizzimore’s searingly good revival shows it’s also a modern classic... It’s starkly staged, deftly cast, and unflinching about the randomness and brutality of love."
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"There's something refreshingly frank about the way that both genders speak about sex here. Marber’s play fizzes with one-liners that still shock, as well as twists that get genuine gasps from the audience. This beautifully-judged revival is a gauntlet thrown down to the next generation of playwrights: it's time for an exploration of sex for the twenty-first century."
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"Marber’s intelligence is always tangible. It’s hard to be bored by any of the seductions, betrayals, recriminations. It’s equally hard, 25 years on, to feel that anything huge hangs on them."
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"Intellectually stimulating, sexy and funny, what's not to like?"
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"It is a feat that even with the weaker moments this play keeps us interested with its wit and sparks of brilliance. And that all these years later, this production manages to give it an edge."
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"There's certainly no doubt Closer remains shockingly entertaining. Yet, on the evidence of this outing at least, perhaps no longer so essential."
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"This 25th-anniversary production makes the audience appreciate why it was as successful as it was – it’s very tautly written, not a line is wasted, and also, at times, very funny – while acknowledging it’s a product of its time."
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