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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m
Mark Ravenhill
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition.
Image: 2016 Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Production (Tristram Kenton)
"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, Independent
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" - Time Out
Shopping and F***ing was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in September of 1996, under the direction of Max Stafford-Clark.
Multiple gay-male roles, extremely violent.
Note from Mark Ravenhill:I'm happy for any of the parts to be played by whoever, whatever gender. The gendered casting is only a suggestion and the parts are open to anyone wherever they are on the gender spectrum.
Contemporary London
REVIEWS
"Ravenhill has a sharp eye for the blackly comic bizarreries of this tragic, emotionally shrink-wrapped world." - The Independent, Read More
"Ravenhill writes well, sometimes eloquently, even bordering on the poetic." - CurtainUp, Read More
"Ravenhill’s shocking drama presents the most graphic and disturbing gay sex scenes ever seen onstage." - New York, Read More
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