Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth19 September 1964
couple play collapse
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
character play always-trying
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
new-york mean play
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
character play answers
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
reading school play
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
drawing personal puts themselves
Well, I never know how much an actor puts of themselves in, and how much they're drawing on personal experience, and I wouldn't like to pry.
horribly structures
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
films mainstream mike
But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
bit characters component feels invented wrote
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
cross feels hollywood line moral pain seductive
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
couple dramatic elegant hoped last meeting power rest structure tension underlying
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.
calling nice notice people sort
It just sort of slowly... you notice more people are calling but it doesn't feel like a big shock. It's very nice but it's not shocking.
arse miss theatre
I'd really like to write a play. I miss the theatre and I've got to get off my arse and write a play; that's really what I've got to do.
versions
Everything is a version of something else.