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Shopping and Fucking

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.

Shopping and Fucking

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting 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

History

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.

Keywords
Performing Groups
LULU
ROBBIE
MARK
GARY
BRIAN

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. 

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Contemporary London
  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Drugs
    • Intense Adult Themes
    • Nudity/Partial Nudity

Media

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

RELATED ARTICLES ON BREAKING CHARACTER 

The Receipt on Our Commercialized Life: SHOPPING AND F***ING 
by Gianfranco Lentini 
May 17, 2016

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Authors

Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill
Mark Ravenhill was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex in 1966. He studied Drama and English at Bristol University. His first play Shopping and Fucking was produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre in 1996. Subsequent plays include Faust Is Dead and Handbag (both ...
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