The Treatment

New York. A film studio. A young woman has an urgent story to tell. But here, people are products, movies are money and sex sells. And the rights to your life can be a dangerous commodity to exploit. Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The Treatment, was first seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner. The Treatment was the joint winner of the 1993 John Whiting Award. 'A sharp satire... what is striking is how, after nearly a quarter of a century, Crimp's play has acquired new potency' - Guardian'Disarmingly prescient... Crimp's dialogue has elliptical poetic snap and a canny ear' - Independent'Troubling, intoxicating and thoroughly entertaining' - The Times'Both sharply funny and profoundly disturbing... it shimmers with dark brilliance, and insight' - WhatsOnStage'Darkly entertaining... has a mordant wit, its darker energies underpinned by a strangely screwball quality' - Time Out'With its echoes of Pinter, this play is a brilliantly written, metaphor-rich, depiction of perversion and desire' - The Arts Desk'With hauntingly accurate observations of society and a writing style so instinctive and shrewd, it is one of the most ingeniously coined pieces of theatre I have ever seen' - A Younger TheatreJoint Winner of the John Whiting Award