Archive: 1 December 1997, interview with Patrick Marber

In this article first published on 1 December 1997, the year that Closer opened at the National, the playwright dubbed 'the new Pinter' talks about his days as a standup and how theatre is just 'a stab in the dark'

Peter Curran and Patrick Marber's Bunk Bed wasn't quite comedy but it was certainly comic: two middle-aged men record their nocturnal musings on life and mortality, secure in the knowledge that since they're on different levels of the bunk, their eyes need never meet.