| Shopping And F***ing Contributor(s): Ravenhill, Mark (Author), Rebellato, Dan (Editor), Megson, Chris (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0413773736 ISBN-13: 9780413773739 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: Fully annotated student edition of Mark Ravenhill's groundbreaking and uncompromising portrait of contemporary society as a place in which social bonds have been dismantled and relationships replaced by weightless, consumerist desires. Mark Ravenhill's first play, "Shopping and F***ing," opened at the Royal Court Theatre, September 1996, transferring to the West End, and opening in New York in January 1998. It has subsequently been produced all over the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Methuen Student Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.6" W x 7.4" (0.29 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ... a real coup de theatre Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard Plunges you into the world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced to transactions ... strong stuff Paul Taylor, IndependentRavenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation Time Out |
Contributor Bio(s): Rebellato, Dan: - Dan Rebellato is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is also a playwright whose work has been performed across Britain, Europe and America, on stage and radio. He is an artistic associate for Analogue theatre company, and a regular contributing editor for New Theatre Quarterly and Associate Editor of Contemporary Theatre Review.Ravenhill, Mark: - Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap's Molly House, and more recently Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (National Theatre, Royal Court, Paines Plough, The Gate Theatre, April 2008).Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre. |