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This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in the 1990s of "in your face" British theatre which fra...
"In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he's put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it's no l...
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted fro...
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life. The plays that make up Shoot/Ge...
Mark Ravenhill's Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality The world's most famous philosoph...
The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a round of chat show appearances, he announces the death of ma...
A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 25 February 2009 "I found you. You're he...
'Like bawdy Shakespeare meets wild Wycherley filtered through the formalised camp of John Osborne's A Patriot for Me...how wonderful to see the rabid ...
Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother's and his family's lives. Starting an ad...
Following the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials), Jamila G...
Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of ...
Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage auth...
The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about ...
It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to ...
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat; Over There; A Life in Three Acts; Ten Plagues; Ghost Story; The Experiment
'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation' Time Out Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat...
'...the history of this pub, the possibilities of what once could have happened in this room in which we're now gathered ... Well. The possibilities'....
Two bold new dramas from the author of Shopping & F***ing The Cut Paul is an ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home, he is a loving husband and ...
All the world's an Xbox and you're a player Candide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible...
From the celebrated and controversial writer of Shopping and Fucking Some Explicit Polaroids premiered at the New Ambassadors Theatre, London in Octob...
Mother Clap's Molly House; The Cut; Citizenship; Pool (no water); Product
Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his ...
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A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come ...
In London Came the plague in sixteen sixty five One hundred thousand dead But I alive. London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague...
Citizenship; Scenes from Family Life; Totally Over You
A collection of three plays for young actors written by Mark Ravenhill: Citizenship, Scenes from a Family Life and Totally Over You, and including an ...
A play that "charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun"--Amazon....
Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
British theatre of the 1990s witnessed an explosion of new talent and presented a new sensibility that sent shockwaves through audiences and critics. ...
Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi...
Inspired by Molière's 'Les Précieuses Ridicules', Mark Ravenhill's ironic play examines the world of instant celebrity, branding and illusion in an ...
A Response to the Countrywide Spending Cuts
Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII – cuts ...
What is globalization? What role is there for the theatre in a globalizing world? This original and provocative book explores the contribution that th...
Hypnotic and razor-sharp, 'pool (no water)' tears up the ideals of friendship and art, exposing a deep vein of envy. The lines of the script are not a...
Mark, Lulu, Robbie, Gary et Brian vivent des situations extrêmes où se mêlent la dépendance, le sexe, la drogue et l'amour....
A Play
The playscript of Mark Ravenhill's adaption of Terry Pratchitt's adventure story about two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami which has destroyed ...
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connection...
Please Return
Since the 1990s, acclaimed London-based Norwegian artist A K Dolven has produced a substantial body of work exploring the relationship between individ...
The four boyfriends, with the help of the members of their school's drama class, set up a witty scenario designed to fool the girls into thinking that...
A Play with Songs
Paul is an ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home, he is a loving husband and father. At work, he administers the cut. In a society sickened by ...
"If you could cure thousands of a fatal disease by experimenting on a single child, would you do it? That's the question posed by the narrator of this...