Bøger af Mark Ravenhill

By the author of "Shopping and F***ing", this play is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality.

Two texts for music theatre by distinctive playwright Mark Ravenhill. Told through a series of songs, Ten Plagues explores humanity's struggle with sickness and death and The Coronation of Poppea is a new version of Monteverdi's opera depicting the triumphant adultery between Poppea and Emperor Nero.

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is Mark Ravenhill's epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life, produced in various locations around London in April 2008.

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.

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 they should never have called off their relationships - because one day soon the lads will be the world-famous boyband Awesome. The current obsession with celebrity is satirized with the lightest of touches in this intelligent comedy for teenagers.7 women, 7 men

This bittersweet comedy about growing up is presented in the Methuen Drama series, with a new introduction by Professor Dan Rebellato.

''Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation'' Time OutShoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: ''A dramatic cycle that is, in its way, epic, but is splintered into many small shards. touches deftly on the impact of war on everyone involved'' Financial TimesOver There:''Ravenhill explores postwar Germany''s division and unification through the power battles between twin brothers. The result is fantastically clever and ingenious'' GuardianA Life in Three Acts: ''By turns charming, funny, informative and, in its final segment, lump-in-the-throat moving as Bourne charts the loss of friends and lovers to Aids, and contemplates old age'' GuardianTen Plagues: ''A remarkable song-cycle. it''s the portrait of grief beyond measure that''s so affecting and which this moving hour of solitudinous lamentation, confusion and defiance brings beautifully to the fore.'' TelegraphGhost Story: ''both a satire and a moving story about illness'' GuardianThe Experiment: ''Mark Ravenhill keeps things creepy in his monologue, The Experiment, in which he plays the satiny-voiced, slippery narrator. The story, and the narrator''s level of complicity, keeps shifting. Ravenhill asks us to consider which version, if any, might be acceptable, and how much we might be willing to avert our eyes from for the greater good.'' Independent

Its a parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive.

Five recent hit plays by one of the most talented writers to emerge from the 1990s who made his mark with the seminal Shopping and F***ing.

Drawing on sources from Aeschylus to The Lion King, Chekhov to Complicite, tragedy to advertising, the book argues for theatre's importance as a site of resistance to the ruthless spread of the global market. Foreword by Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill's play "Mother Clap's Molly House" explores the gay subculture of 18th-century London.

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 his profession, Paul struggles with his conscience and longs to tell the truth. This title also includes "Product".

A collection of Mark Ravenhill's plays: "Shopping and Fucking"; "Faust"; Handbag"; and "Some Explicit Polaroids".

"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 less stunning" (Guardian)

-A Lyric Hammersmith production ... First performance of this production at the Lyric Hammersmith on 07 October 2016---Added title page.