Shopping And F***ing - (Student Editions) Annotated by Mark Ravenhill (Paperback)

About the Book

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"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

About the Author

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.