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Shopping and F***ing
Mr Mark Ravenhill
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Description for Shopping and F***ing
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 99.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350027923
SKU
V9781350027923
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Ref
99-5
About Mr Mark Ravenhill
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, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, The Cut, Product, pool (no water), Citizenship, Ten Plagues, The Coronation ... Read more
Reviews for Shopping and F***ing
An omen of the new century
Evening Standard
Harshly, wittily, Shopping and Fucking connects commerce and pleasure in graphic modern terms ... Ravenhill is one of the most arresting talents to have arrived in the British theatre during the 1990s
Financial Times
Plunges you into a world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be ... Read more
Evening Standard
Harshly, wittily, Shopping and Fucking connects commerce and pleasure in graphic modern terms ... Ravenhill is one of the most arresting talents to have arrived in the British theatre during the 1990s
Financial Times
Plunges you into a world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be ... Read more