| Shopping and F***ing Contributor(s): Ravenhill, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350027928 ISBN-13: 9781350027923 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Modern Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.24 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It's summer. I'm in a supermarket. It's hot and I'm sweaty. Damp. And I'm watching this couple shopping. I'm watching you. And you're both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that I'm going to have you. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink-wrapped world. A place where shopping is sexy and fucking is a job. Ravenhill's play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. It received its world premiere in 1996 in a production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre, and has been published in this edition to coincide with the 2016 revival of the play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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). |