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Mark Ravenhill
Former teacher Edward is looking forward to his retirement. After forty-five years teaching, he finds himself under siege in his own home with angry students attacking it, including throwing a…
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"Acclaimed dramatist Mark Ravenhill explores the creative process in this riveting exploration of the origin of one of the most beloved British operas of all time"--
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This play concerns five misfits in an uncertain drug society. Supposedly friends or at least acquaintances, no one can really be honest with each other, sexually or financially. This is…
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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)
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…
Unabridged English value reproduction of Candide by Voltaire, is a book that belongs on the shelf of those desiring to contemplate life. Voltaire subtly challenges the reader’s complacent view of…
Lisa has breast cancer. Meryl is a healer who believes in the power of positive thinking. As time folds back on itself and then forwards, Lisa and Meryl trade roles…
Taking inspiration from Oedipus and Chilean children who were taken from their biological parents to support the Pinochet regime, Golden Child follows a young man’s journey discovering that the people…
Mark Ravenhill’s play Mother Clap’s Molly House explores the gay subculture of 18th-century London.
When Franz’s mother escaped to the West with one of her identical twin boys, she left the other behind. Now, twenty-five years later, Karl crosses the border in search of…
A famous artist invites her old friends to her luxurious new home. For one night only, the group is back together. But celebrations come to an abrupt end when the…
Olivia is a hot young starlet. Now all she needs is the script which will save her from B movie hell, a script which balances artistic integrity with blockbuster bucks…
Scenes from Family Life is a charged and punchy play about relationships and the last two people left on earth. Lisa and Jack are teenagers, but they are about to…
After fifteen years inside, political activist Nick emerges to find that the old causes of the 80s have become the lost causes of the 90s. As he struggles to get…
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…
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 story, their…
By the author of Shopping and F***ing , this play is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality.
The new collection of plays from leading British dramatist mark Ravenhill. It draws together six plays including ‘Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat’, a dramatic cycle that is, in its way, epic, but splintered…
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.
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.
A collection of three plays for young actors written by Mark Ravenhill: Citizenship, Scenes from a Family Life and Totally Over You. Includes an introduction by the author.
Two modern operas by distinctive playwright Mark Ravenhill.
Gay Gary , his stoner schoolfriend, turns out to be gay by nickname only; deClerk, the Citizenship teacher, is gay but stressed out and professionally cautious and cannot help; Amy…
Candide is an optimist. A dreamer. He believes that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. But that belief is about to be tested as…
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 story, their…
Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her…
After 15 years inside, political activist Nick emerges to find that the old causes of the 80s have become the lost causes of the 90s. As he struggles to get…
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition.
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…
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/Get Treasure/Repeat began life at the…
The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition.
Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today’s twenty-somethings…
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 adult ballet class as the only male in…
Taking inspiration from Oedipus and Chilean children who were taken from their biological parents to support the Pinochet regime, GOLDEN CHILD follows a young man's journey discovering that the people…
Scenes from Family Life is a charged and punchy play about relationships and the last two people left on earth. Lisa and Jack are teenagers but they are about to…
Olivia is a hot young starlet. Now all she needs is the script which will save her from B movie hell a script which balances artistic integrity with blockbuster bucks…
It's London 1726, and Mrs. Tull's got problems. The whores are giving her a hard time, a man in a dress is looking for a job, her husband has a…
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 here. And I was over…
Mark Ravenhill (Playwright UK)
Kristina Von Koelln
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2,0, Technical University of Braunschweig, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the depiction…
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Voltaire
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‘…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’.
Written as a response to…
