“It’s summer. I’m in a supermarket. It’s hot and I’m sweaty. Damp. And I’m watching this couple shopping. I’m watching you. And you’re both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that I’m going to have you.”
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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