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, Independent
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out
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.
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in student edition.
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"'Shopping And F***ing is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings... a real coup de theatre' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard"
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The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition
| Mark Ravenhill: 1966 |
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| Plot |
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| Commentary |
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| Political theatre |
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| Thatcherism and the consumer society |
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| The decline of the Left |
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| Searching for values |
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| `Blank generation' |
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| Irony |
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| Fathers |
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| Violence and the body |
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| From `gay' to `queer' |
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| Queer theatre |
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| Shopping and fucking |
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| Production history |
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| Further Reading |
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| Notes |
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| Questions for Further Study |
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Mark Ravenhill trained at Bristol University. His first full-length play, Shopping and F***ing, open ed at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs, in September 1996. It transferred to the West End in June 1 997 and opened in New York in January 1998. It has subsequently been produced all over the world. Hi s other plays include Faust, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids and Mother Clap's Molly House.
