Clair works in real estate. Mike and Liz are selling. James wants to buy. He'll only deal with Clair. Martin Crimp's play “Dealing with Clair” premiered in 1988 at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. This edition was published alongside a new production of the play at the Orange Tree, in October 2018, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
"'Ingenious... truly timeless... Crimp is brilliant at showing how language can camouflage people's baser actions... a fiendishly clever play'"
Guardian
"'Without ever straying from the naturalistic and while often being extremely funny, Crimp exposes the couple's evasions with the accuracy of a butterfly collector pinning down his specimens... a resonant and powerful play'"
WhatsOnStage
"'A bleakly amusing, incrementally disquieting drama... deploys a Pinter-esque enigma and abstraction to take on a culture of quick bucks and soulless transactions'"
