...There is not a wasted action in Crouch's pieces. He refuses to settle for either the conventional or the odd for odd's sake. Encountering his work is like walking into a laboratory: the experiment is already afoot, the rules are changeable, the presentation is lucid, and important questions are asked about the stage, space, time and how we tell stories.” – Caridad Svich

„The Author is like a seris of sheets being pulled away, but being slowly, almost imperceptibly, withdrawn rather than simply whipped aside. At a certain point the audience begins to be aware that the play has ceased to be a dissection of the theatre-going experience and has become something else. It has become an exploration of how extreme and disturbing material can infiltrate the minds and lives of those who come in contact with it.

It explores how the act of writing and staging something, of appropriating the stories of others, can infect people. The play that Crouch and the two actors describe is about conflict and abuse in an unnamed country, and it has left a residue.” — Natasha Tripney, Interval Drinks

Tim Crouch’s first play, MY ARM, opened at the Traverse Theatre in 2003 and has toured internationally with runs in New York and London. His adaptation for BBC radio won the 2005 Prix Italia for Best Adapted Drama.

In 2005 Crouch premiered AN OAK TREE at the Traverse where it won a Glasgow Herald Angel. A play that requires a different second actor each time it is performed, AN OAK TREE won an Obie from its Off-Broadway run in 2006/7 and this year broke all box office records during its four week run at Soho Theatre, London.

Tim Crouch has also written successfully for young audiences. His play SHOPPING FOR SHOES, commissioned by the National Theatre’s Education Department, won the 2007 Brian Way Award for children’s playwriting. ENGLAND is written and designed to be performed within exhibitions of art inside galleries. It represents the realisation of a long-held ambition for the Traverse Theatre and the Fruitmarket Gallery to collaborate together on a project.

The Author, the latest chapter in Tim Crouch's ongoing theatrical experiment, provides an evening that is both frustrating and compelling in equal measure.

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Source: trafo.hu