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	University of St. Francis
		University of St. Francis Sometimes Thespians presents the award-winning play Closer by Patrick Marber, Aug. 3-6.
		The play is directed by Sera O’Connor of Worth, Ill. and junior, Nicole Talaga of Crest Hill.
		General admission tickets for Closer are $12; student and senior tickets are $8.
	www.stfrancis.edu /news/closer.htm (249 words)

	Albemarle - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is a play by a man who has drunk desire down to the last bitter dregs, who knows that love can hurt and scar as much as it consoles and heals.
		Closer seems to probe deeper than individual character; it charts some of the most ambiguous areas of emotional dependence and independence, and of the human need both to be known and to be unknowable, areas where very different people can find themselves alarmingly alike.
		Closer has only four characters but is infinitely more striking, a sort of Private Lives for the late 1990s, with brutal language to match and an ingenious narrative scheme which duplicates the relationships into the musical form of a quadrille.
	www.albemarle-london.com /Archive/ArchiveShow.php?Show_Name=Closer (3412 words)

	Closer (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Closer is the second play written by Patrick Marber.
		I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure – the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play – and inelegant emotion.
		The play was made into a 2004 film of the same name, also written by Marber and directed by Mike Nichols.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closer_(play) (750 words)

	Closer
		What made Closer inherently cinematic, according to Nichols, was the fact that “it’s told in the way that people remember things — in a telescoped way.” Also, he adds, the element of intimacy in Marber’s work lends itself better to the screen than the stage.
		Overall, Roberts says she admires Closer because, “I think it’s about the plight of these people trying to be closer to each other, to be closer to something really valued in life, to be closer to a truth that maybe none of them will ever be.
		What drew him to Closer, which he had seen several times on stage and greatly admired, was Marber’s “extraordinary dialogue and its concentrated focus on these four characters who are the heart of the play,” he says.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/March05/1108Closer.htm (2548 words)

	Closer - hello-stranger.net, a closer [archive] fansite
		About half-way through "Closer," a chatty, claustrophobic film about sex, romance and betrayal, there are two scenes that rip though the genteel, polished skin of the thing and feel possessed of the organic pulse of human life.
		So while the sexual politics of "Closer" are played dirtier than any previously portrayed on the megaplex screens, they are still likely to shock audiences who do not expect, or want, to see the facts of life discussed publicly.
		Closer provides such an up-close and ultra-personal look at relationships and their unraveling that it sometimes blinds us to the simple beauty of romance.
	hello-stranger.net /archive_12_3.php (1092 words)

	Closer - Patrick Marber
		As in his earlier play, Dealer's Choice, Marber is sharply observant in mapping the clashes that arise as his compulsively faithless characters dive eagerly toward their next betrayal.
		Closer follows their relationships over an extended period, leaping ahead months and even years in almost each of the twelve scenes to the next decisive meeting or confrontation.
		Alice knew where to find happiness, but Dan couldn't play along; he and the others remain unable to commit themselves to (or be satisfied with) what they have.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/dramauk/marberp1.htm (1184 words)

	ArtScope.net: CLOSER
		The play follows four Londoners prone to selfishness, foul-mouthed sex talk, and sudden cruelties, through a series of couplings and betrayals.
		Critics praised the play as an anatomy of modern love, reaching hysterical heights of enthusiasm for a one-joke internet sex scene between Dan and Larry early in the play.
		But Closer confines itself to too narrow a range of lives to be any sort of anatomy.
	www.artscope.net /PAREVIEWS/closer0800.shtml (1312 words)

	KDHX Film Review - Closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But when the men and women involved play games with each other, participate in power plays for a myriad of reasons—the stakes escalate as they become skewed.
		Now he restricts his focus to two couples who play musical beds in a cruel combination of lust and ego, the machinations delivered through stunning performances by Jude Law and Clive Owen as the men and Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts as the women.
		This accurately reflects the cold cores of these contemporary characters but also results in a distancing of the viewing audience, not necessarily a bad consequence since reflection on this behavior is heartily recommended.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/closer.html (341 words)

	The Players to stage 'Closer'
		"Closer," a play that presents a darker view of love, will be presented by students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Friday through Sunday, Oct. 25 to 27.
		As the play opens, a pretty young stripper named Alice (played by Kelly McLaughlin, Chippewa Falls) falls in love with Dan, a writer (played by Peter Blavat, De Pere).
		The award-winning play by British playwright Patrick Marber ran in London’s West End in 1998, before becoming an international hit.
	www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/kyCloser10-2002.htm (404 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Broadway Review: Closer
		If Closer does just manage to keep one speculating on what's going to happen to its characters next, it's the sort of grim interest in evidence at the scene of a tragic accident, with the bystanders waiting for a glimpse of mangled bodies being carried away on stretchers.
		As plodding as most of the evening is, Closer does manage to pick up a little speed and generate some interest late in Act Two, when Alice, comparatively the most understandable of the group, manages to spring a few surprises and generates the only warmth and genuine feeling of the evening.
		Closer strikes one as its theatrical sequel, 30 years on, older but no wiser, with a curious end of the century spin that sexual and emotional freedom now apparently includes the right to extract revenge, pain, and suffering from any partner who cannot or will not completely fulfill ones needs and banish the loneliness.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/closer.html (887 words)

	Angry young man no more - theage.com.au
		The play arrives and has to be written or excavated or dredged, usually.
		Pitched up on the millennium's eve, Closer caught the sexual amorality, bad manners and longings of the late 1990s and cast Marber, an Oxford-educated, former stand-up comedian and TV writer, on to the lists of noted new and supposed very angry, in-yer-face British playwrights, such as Mark Ravenhill, Joe Penhall and and late Sarah Kane.
		His shelves are lined with plays and music from Mozart to Paul Weller, and his walls are decorated with posters, keepsakes and memorabilia, including a novelty yarmulke.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/07/16/1058035067681.html (1164 words)

	Rolling Stone : Closer : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Julia Roberts plays Anna, a photographer who is goaded by her doctor husband, Larry (Clive Owen).
		Closer, adapted by Patrick Marber from his 1997 play, is set in modern London, where hooking up only registers if you betray the one you're with.
		Closer is a triumph for Nichols because he reinvents the play by filling the spaces between the words with telling nuances.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/6132294/closer (578 words)

	CLOSER
		Closer in about 30 minutes, and then wondered how the heck somebody would turn the sparse, depressing work in a feature-length motion picture.
		Closer is about two couples who try, unsuccessfully, to secretly swap partners.
		Closer so interesting, aside from the across-the-board blistering performances and crackling dialogue, is that you might empathize with a character in one scene, and then hate their guts in the next.
	www.sick-boy.com /closer.htm (534 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CLOSER movie by Mike Nichols with Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		"Closer" is based on the play by Patrick Marber with Marber himself penning the wordy screenplay.
		As "Closer" opens (to the strains of Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter"), Dan (Jude Law) and Alice (Natalie Portman) are bobbing in slow-mo towards each other on a crowded London street.
		Portman, as she was in "Garden State," is a delight, bringing an inner maturity to the flighty Alice.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/closer.php (708 words)

	Clive Owen - Closer
		Closer has only four characters but is infinitely more striking, a sort of Private Lives for the late 1990s, with brutal language to match and an ingenious narrative scheme which duplicates the relationships into the musical form of a quadrille.
		Closer is a play about love, desire, sex, jealousy and guilt.
		Not the least of this play's accomplishments is that you become desperate to know what is going to happen to its anguished, vulnerable characters next.
	www.murphsplace.com /owen/film/closer/closer2.html (1967 words)

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	Latino Review
		This emotionally involving play is at often times funny and graphically brutal in its story of four individuals who've each fallen victim to the illusion of love.
		The original play "Closer" ran at London's Royal National Theatre in 1997 where Clive Owen originated the role of Dan.
		“Closer” is about people, who don’t realize what they have until its too late, always looking for the next great love, or refusing to move on after losing one.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2004/sonypictures/closer/review2.html (1122 words)

	Closer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Closer (play), by Patrick Marber, upon which the film is based
		Closer (Better Than Ezra album), an album by Better Than Ezra
		Closer to God, a 1994 remix single by Nine Inch Nails
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Closer (149 words)

	Amazon.com: Patrick Marber Plays: 1: Closer / Dealer's Choice / After Miss Julie: Books: Patrick Marber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		However, "Closer" is so captivating to me and so satisfying in its complexity that I feel ok about giving the whole a 5 star rating even before I've read the others.
		This writer's ability to express the emotional depth of a variety of characters in one play and reveal how they all influence and are influenced by one another makes this a very stimulating read.
		I was pleasantly surprised to find that Marbers other plays, Dealer's Choice and After Miss Julie, were of equal quality, and offered something surprisingly different from his other text (a rarity in today's theatre world).
	www.amazon.com /Patrick-Marber-Plays-Closer-Dealers/dp/0413774279 (1762 words)

	Clive Owen: Closer
		Closer was banking on its gorgeous cast, including Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen to carry it to some degree of success with a moderate opening on 476 screens.
		The song that plays at the very beginning of the Sony trailer is actually a clip from "The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice, not Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio as you have it.
		And we just play four individuals who have very complex relationships..." Portman previously worked with Nichols in a play and says that he is much more than just another director to her: "Mike is, well, I've known him for like six years now.
	www.murphsplace.com /owen/film/closer/closer.html (3513 words)

	A closer look at 'Closer'
		Based on Patrick Marber's play of the same name, "Closer" is a story about love.
		Of course, playing a part in the play, I knew it so well.
		Whenever you play a part you see everything through that character's perception and the way it flows.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1127closer.html (842 words)

	ABC 7 News - Saints Move Closer To Bye With Win Over Giants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		55 of those yards came on one play, a lone touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress in what turned out to be his lone catch of the game.
		Burress' touchdown reception was his 10th of the season, the most by a Giants receiver since Earnest Gray hauled in 10 TD passes in 1980.
		New York quickly went three & out and Bush appeared to return the resulting punt 57 yards for a touchdown but the play was challenged and he was ruled down by contact earlier in the sequence.
	www.wjla.com /news/stories/1206/382946.html (1122 words)

	Closer
		Patrick Marber adapted his play, Closer, for the screen and director Mike Nichols used various locations in London to open it up, as they say--to escape the four-walled confines of the theater.
		It looks terrific, capturing some of the contemporary gloss of the city, but it still feels more like a play than a movie, telling its story almost exclusively through dialogue, rather than with the sort of visual narrative that is special to the film medium.
		Each character, in one way or another, plays mind games on the others, playing off of their guilt, their insecurities, their neediness--and all in the name of love.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Closer.htm (741 words)

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	Closer Reviews
		Susan Granger's review of "Closer" (Sony Pictures Entertainment) If characters are totally self-absorbed and don't care for each other, even as friends, it's hard for an audience to form an emotional connection with them or care about their...
		I'm no speed reader, but I read Patrick Marber's play Closer in about 30 minutes, and then wondered how the heck somebody would turn the sparse, depressing work in a feature-length motion picture.
		CLOSER, way too stagy to be a movie, makes minutes feel like hours, as two dysfunctional couples argue quietly and artistically -- think WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF ON VALIUM.
	www.killermovies.com /c/closer/reviews (415 words)

	Amazon.com: Closer: Books: Patrick Marber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Closer, Patrick Marber 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 being hailed as one of the best new plays of the nineties, and as the London Observer noted, it "has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done.
		Alice/Jane's film character, as played by Natalie Portman, was riveting, but I wish they'd included the stuff about her scar in the film.
	www.amazon.com /Closer-Patrick-Marber/dp/0802136451 (1421 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- Closer - ***
		Closer is no date movie; it is more of a break-up movie.
		Closer has a muted color scheme, but the perfect fl levels show that to be an intentional choice, not due to a bad transfer.
		Closer is an enjoyable film that takes a hard look at adult relationships.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/closer.htm (543 words)

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