Product Description

"Mark Ravenhill is a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism"-Financial Times

Ravenhill is a master dissector of modern society and the issues that concern the E-generation. Contains Shopping and Fucking, Faust is Dead, Handbag, and Some Explicit Polaroids.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #794648 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
'There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism.' Financial Times; Shopping and Fucking: 'is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings... a real coup de theatre' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard; Faust: '...an intelligent and witty reappropriation of the legend... alive, pertinent and disturbing' Michael Coveney, Observer; Handbag: '...combines urban grit with sly wit, and reveals Mark Ravenhill as a writer of real daring' Daily Telegraph; Some Explicit Polaroids: 'laudably ambitious, pulsates with energy... very funny' Financial Times

About the Author
Mark Ravenhill trained at Bristol University. His first full-length play, Shopping and Fucking, 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 and Some Explicit Polaroids.

Customer Reviews

Lingering and disturbing
Mark Ravenhill, in the '90s, was one of the playwrights responsible for re-invigorating English, if not British, drama in what became known as in-yer-face theatre. These are not your average "let's talk about our relationship" plays, but try to enter the heart of what it is to live in the post-cold war world of economics and super-mediation. Some of the plays upon first reading may disappoint with a kind of elusiveness combined with superficial shock - but try again. On the stage as well as on the page these plays chisel away at our certainties and begin to help us understand the nature of humanity in recent times.