Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap's Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, The Cut, Product, pool (no water), Citizenship, Ten Plagues, The Coronation of Poppea, Candide, Faust is Dead, Handbag, A Life in Three Acts, A Life of Galileo and Over There.

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"Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ... a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard
"Plunges you into the world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced to transactions ... strong stuff" Paul Taylor, Independent
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out