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.
They have a candid, brutally truthful conversation, and it is revealed that Anna did in fact have sex with Larry and he did sign the papers.Īlice meanwhile has been sleeping with Larry. 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's come from asking Larry to sign the divorce papers. She declines, but we later learn she does actually go home with him after all.Ī month after this, Anna is late meeting Dan for dinner. In a poignant moment, he asks, "Tell me something true, Alice." She tells him, "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. Finally, one year later, they tell their partners the truth and leave their respective partners for each other.Īlice, devastated, disappears from Dan's life and goes back to stripping, going by the name Jane. 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 recognizes as the woman in the photo, and knows that she is Dan's girlfriend. They have an argument over Alice's presentiment that Dan will leave her.
They become a couple.Īt Anna's showing, Alice stands in front of her photo, looking at it Dan is watching her. She reveals that it is her birthday and snaps a photo of Larry. Anna catches on and explains that it was probably Dan playing a practical joke on him. When Larry arrives, stunned to see Anna (who Dan didn't know would actually be there), he acts under the impression that she is the same person from last night 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. She asks Anna to take her photo, and when Dan has left, confronts her Anna insists she is "not a thief" and snaps a photo of a tear-stricken Alice. Alice overhears his conversation with Anna.
He begs Anna to see him again, and she rejects him. Dan falls in love with Anna, though he is in a relationship with Alice, having left his former girlfriend for her. 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 his editor and tells his boss that he's sick and can't come in to work. Upon the girl's prompting, he says his euphemism would be "reserved" and hers would be "disarming." She is Alice Ayres, a self-described waif who has a scar along her leg which is shaped like a question mark. Dan and the young woman introduce themselves-he is Daniel Woolf, an obituary writer and failed writer who tells her how he and his colleagues use euphemisms humorously in their work in obituaries. Larry, a doctor in dermatology, inspects her leg briefly and leaves. PlotĪ young man, Dan, takes a young woman to the hospital after she has been hit by a taxi they flirt as they wait for the doctor to attend to her bloodied knee. Closer has drawn comparisons with Noel Coward's "Private Lives", Harold Pinter's Betrayal, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses in its intricate focus on the politics of four people trading partners for lust. 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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