Twenty years since its explosive premiere, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes brings Mark Ravenhill’s provocative first play, Shopping and Fucking back to the stage.
Twenty years since its explosive premiere, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes brings Mark Ravenhill’s provocative first play, Shopping and F***ing back to the stage.
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.
“An omen of the new century” ……….(Evening Standard), Ravenhill’s play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. Widely regarded as one of the most influential pieces of contemporary British theatre this rarely staged play is a must see.
The Lyric’s main house will be transformed for this production with part of the audience seated on the stage, creating a bold intimate experience within their Victorian auditorium.
All stalls and onstage stalls seats will be £25.
Mark Ravenhill said: “I’ve enjoyed a long and fulfilling association with the Lyric – Faust Is Dead (1997), Handbag (1998), Pool (2005), Show 6 (2015) for the Lyric’s Secret Theatre – and so it’s very exciting that they are reviving my first play Shopping and Fucking, twenty years after it premiered. I’m looking forward to seeing what a new generation of theatre audiences make of the play.”
Event: Shopping and F***ing is a Lyric Hammersmith production by Mark Ravenhill: Directed by Sean Holmes
Where: Lyric Theatre, Kings Mall Shopping Centre, King St, Lyric Square, London W6 0QL
When: Friday October 7 – Saturday, November 5
Time: Evenings 7.30pm matinees 1.30 and 2.30pm
Cost: £15, £20, £30 and £35: £15 previews: £15 midweek matinees
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