The younger Alice describes Larry's emotional state as troubled and learns from Anna that Dan still calls out for "Buster" (Alice's nickname) in his sleep.Īnna goes back to Larry. Anna calls Alice "primitive", a description Alice accepts. The two women share a heated exchange in which their mutual animosity is revealed. Larry asks Anna if their divorce will ever become finalised he leaves when Alice emerges. Larry and Anna exchange words, as Anna discovers Alice and Larry have been having a casual relationship. On his birthday, she summons him to the museum and sets up Anna to meet him there. Anna reveals that she did have sex with Larry and he did sign the papers.Īlice meanwhile has been having sex with Larry. They have a candid, brutally truthful conversation. Dan becomes upset and jealous, asking Anna why she didn’t lie to him. Dan finds out that Larry had demanded Anna have sex with him before he would sign the papers. She is coming from asking Larry to sign the divorce papers. She declines.Ī month after this, Anna is late meeting Dan for dinner. In a poignant moment, he asks, "Tell me something true, Alice." She says, "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do." They share a connection based on mutual betrayal and heartbreak. Larry finds her at one of the seedy strip clubs in London, where he pushes her to tell the truth about her name. She returns to stripping, using the name Jane. Finally, a year later, they tell their partners the truth and leave to be with each other.Īlice, devastated, disappears from Dan's life. They cheat on their partners with each other, even through Anna and Larry's marriage. Meanwhile, Dan convinces Anna to carry on an affair with him. Larry meets Alice, whom he recognises as the woman in the photo, and knows that she is Dan's girlfriend. They have an argument over Alice's feeling that Dan will leave her. She reveals that it is her birthday and snaps a photo of Larry.Īt Anna's exhibit of photos, Alice stands in front of the photo of her, looking at it Dan is watching her. Anna catches on and says that Dan was probably playing a practical joke on him. When Larry arrives, stunned to see Anna (who Dan didn't know would be there), he acts believing that she is the same person from the previous night's internet chat and makes a fool of himself. He tries to play a practical joke on Larry by arranging for Larry to meet him (Dan pretending to be Anna in the chat room) in the London Aquarium the next day. Dan impersonates Anna and has Internet sex with Larry. Six months later, Dan and Larry meet in an adult chat room. Anna insists she is "not a thief" and snaps a photo of a tear-stricken Alice. She asks Anna to take her photo, and when Dan has left, confronts her. Alice overhears his conversation with Anna. He begs Anna to see him again, and she rejects him. Dan is infatuated with Anna, though he is in a relationship with Alice, for whom he left his former girlfriend. More than a year later, Dan is on the verge of publishing a book based on Alice's past as a stripper, and Anna is taking his photograph for publicity. Wanting him to spend the rest of the day with her, she calls in sick to his office for him. She is Alice Ayres, a self-described waif who has a scar along her leg shaped like a question mark. At the young woman's prompting, he says his euphemism would be "reserved" and hers would be "disarming". Dan and the young woman introduce themselves-he is Daniel Woolf, an obituary writer and failed novelist who tells her how he and his colleagues use euphemisms humorously in their work in obituaries.
Larry, a dermatologist, inspects her leg briefly and leaves. Plot Ī young man, Dan, takes a young woman to hospital after she has been hit by a taxi they flirt as they wait for the doctor to attend to her bloodied knee. Closer was first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London on it was the second original play written by Patrick Marber.
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