{"id":997,"date":"2017-09-06T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2024-05-08T07:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T07:38:06","slug":"marber-patrick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=997","title":{"rendered":"Marber, Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Marber is a playwright, actor, and director. He was born in Wimbledon, London in 1964 and grew up in a middle class Jewish home. He went to Wadham College, Oxford, earning a degree in English, and started his career as a comedian. In an interview with the Guardian<\/em> Marber claimed: \u201cI consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard,<\/a> David Mamet, Phillip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.\u201d (1997)<\/p>\n

Marber\u2019s first play Dealer\u2019s Choice <\/em>premiered at the National Theatre in 1995 and won the Evening Standard <\/em>Award for Best Comedy. The same year, Marber\u2019s After Miss Julie <\/em>was shown on BBC television. Marber\u2019s 1997 play, Closer<\/em> also opened at the National Theatre and won the Evening Standard\u00a0<\/em>Award for Best Comedy as well as the Critic\u2019s Circle Theatre Award and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (amongst other awards). The play achieved international success and was translated into more than 30 languages. When it moved to Broadway, Closer <\/em>was nominated for the Best New Play Tony Award. It was adapted for the screen by Marber in 2004.<\/p>\n

In Howard Katz\u00a0<\/em>(2001), Marber depicts the events leading to the personal downfall of middle-aged Howard Katz who fails to balance his work life as a talent agent with his family life and the demands of his Jewish parents. The play received more mixed reviews than Marber\u2019s other works.<\/p>\n

Marber continued to direct and write screenplays for a number of critically acclaimed films including Zoe Heller\u2019s Notes on a Scandal<\/em> (2003) for which he received an Academy Award nomination in 2006. Marber recently wrote the film The Critic<\/em> in 2023. He has also directed many prestigious theatre productions including Harold Pinter\u2019s<\/a> The Caretaker <\/em>(1959). His play The Red Lion<\/em> opened at the National Theatre in 2015. In 2016, he directed Tom Stoppard<\/a>\u2019s Travesties<\/em> (1974) at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Marber\u2019s revival of the play was highly successful and it was transferred to the Apollo Theatre, London in 2017. He directed Tom Stoppard<\/a>‘s play Leopoldstadt<\/em>, which is set in the Jewish community of early twentieth-century Vienna. Leopoldstadt<\/em> premiered at Wyndham’s Theatre in 2020. The play closed due to the pandemic and reopened for a 12 week run in August 2021. Leopoldstadt<\/em> had it’s Broadway premiere in October 2022, for which, Marber won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Marber directed Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus<\/em> from December 2021 until February 2022 at the Menier Chocolate Factory.<\/p>\n

Plays<\/p>\n

—. Howard Katz<\/i>. New York: Grove Press, 2003.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. The Musicians: A Play<\/i>. London: Samuel French, 2005.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. Notes on a Scandal. Based on the Novel by Zoe Heller. <\/i>London: Faber and Faber, 2006.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. Don Juan in Soho: After Moliere<\/i>. London: Faber Faber, 2007.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. Plays 1: After Miss Julie; Closer; Dealer\u2019s Choice<\/i>. London: Methuen Drama, 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. The Red Lion<\/i>. London: Faber and Faber, 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

—. Patrick Marber: Versions: After Miss Julie; Three Days in the Country; Hedda Gabler; Trelawny of the \u201cWells\u201d; The Beaux Stratagem<\/i>. London: Faber and Faber, 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Marber is a playwright, actor, and director. He was born in Wimbledon, London in 1964 and grew up in a middle class Jewish home. He went to Wadham College, Oxford, earning a degree in English, and started his career as a comedian. In an interview with the Guardian Marber claimed: \u201cI consider myself a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":565,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions\/3206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}