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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101350027928
ISBN-139781350027923
eBay Product ID (ePID)229578875
Product Key Features
Number of Pages112 Pages
Publication NameShopping and F***Ing
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTheater / Playwriting, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorMark Ravenhill
Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts
SeriesModern Plays Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight3.5 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal822.9/14
SynopsisIt's summer. I'm in a supermarket. It's hot and I'm sweaty. Damp. And I'm watching this couple shopping. I'm watching you. And you're both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that I'm going to have you. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink-wrapped world. A place where shopping is sexy and fucking is a job.Ravenhill's play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. It received its world premiere in 1996 in a production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre, and has been published in this edition to coincide with the 2016 revival of the play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London., It's summer. I'm in a supermarket. It's hot and I'm sweaty. Damp. And I'm watching this couple shopping. I'm watching you. And you're both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that I'm going to have you. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink-wrapped world. A place where shopping is sexy and fucking is a job. Ravenhill's play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. It received its world premiere in 1996 in a production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre, and has been published in this edition to coincide with the 2016 revival of the play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.