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Shopping and Fucking
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 4m
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition.
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Cast Size
1w, 4m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
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.
- 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
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The Receipt on Our Commercialized Life: SHOPPING AND F***ING
by Gianfranco Lentini
May 17, 2016
Licensing & Materials
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