Shopping and fucking

MARK RAVENHILL First published 1997

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.

Subjects

  • british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • conduct of life
  • consumption (economics)
  • drama
  • english, irish, scottish, welsh
  • moral conditions
  • social aspects
  • social conditions
  • social values