Shopping And F***ing

This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new value system which reduces everything else to a mere transaction, as shopping malls become the new cathedrals of Western consumerism.

Mark Ravenhill trained at Bristol University. His first full-length play, "Shopping and F***ing," open ed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1996. It transferred to the West End in 1997 and opened on Broadway the following year. It has subsequently been produced all over the world. His other plays include "Faust," "Handbag," "Some Explicit Polaroids" and "Mother Clap's Molly House." This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new value system which reduces everything else to a mere transaction, as shopping malls become the new cathedrals of Western consumerism. This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which frankly dealt with issues of sex and violence and pointedly challenged societal values. The play explores how consumerism has become our new value system which reduces everything else to a mere transaction, as shopping malls become the new cathedrals of Western consumerism. "Connects commerce and pleasure in graphic modern terms...one of the most arresting talents...in the British theatre."--"Financial Times of London

""Darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings...a real coup de theatre."--"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."--"Independent "

"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation."--"Time Out"