Shopping and Fucking
by MARK RAVENHILL
Taste attributes: dramasexcrimedocumentaryfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringself destruction/implosionsocial commentarytroubled leads
Boxlist takeDark and realistic: a small-scale non-fiction book, heavy rather than light. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
About This Book
Part of the "in-yer-face" movement in 1990s British theatre that dealt frankly with issues of sex and violence as well as pointedly challenging societal values, this play follows five characters conducting hedonistic, self-destructive lives in a grim microcosm of drugs, shoplifting, prostitution, and sexual adventure, reflecting a society corrupted by consumerism and in a state of moral decline.
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- Author
- MARK RAVENHILL
- Published
- 1996
- Pages
- 96
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- Open Library
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