Closer

NEW DATES!! February 18 – March 13
Closer
By Patrick Marber
Directed by Erin Riley

There’s a thin, shaky line between love and hate… and it always seems the people we love most are the ones we hurt most often. In Closer, playwright Patrick Marber gives us a brilliant and painfully honest exploration of the brutal anatomy of modern romance. Modern day London hosts four strangers as they meet, fall in love, fall out of love and back again in this poignant, dark sketch of one or our favorite pop culture topics- The Relationship.

Four lives intertwine over the course of four and a half years in this stinging look at modern love and betrayal. Dan, an obituary writer, meets Alice, a stripper, after an accident in the street. Eighteen months later, they’re a couple, and Dan has written a novel inspired by Alice. While posing for his book jacket cover, Dan meets Anna, a photographer. He pursues her, but she rejects his advances despite their mutual attraction. Larry, a dermatologist, “meets” Dan in an Internet chat room. Dan, obsessing over Anna, pretends to be her and has cyber sex with Larry. They arrange to meet the next day at an aquarium. Larry arrives and so too, coincidentally, does the real Anna. This sets-up a series of pass-the-lover scenes in which this quartet struggle to find intimacy but can’t seem to get closer.

Thursday 2/18 at 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sunday 2/28 at 3pm.

Please be advised – Closer contains graphic profanity, adult situations and nudity. Theatre Patrons 17 and under will not be admitted without an accompanying adult.

Cast

Bobbi Datz	Anna
Timothy Dillon	Larry
Brian S. Kraszewski	Dan
Melissa O’Brien	Alice

Press

Closer is Further Away at Mobtown, and That’s a Good Thing

“The audience will enjoy alternately wincing and laughing at the folly on display, and perhaps even (oh, horrors!) identifying with moments of it.”

– Broadway World

Love Hurts

“There’s something about the intensity of Mobtown Theatre’s production … that leaves you marveling at the psychological torments of love…. Though Closer reveals the complicated, destructive, raw, and enervating nature of relationships, it also reminds us why we seek them.”

– CityPaper

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