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A 1996 play by English playwright [[Mark Ravenhill]].
 
A 1996 play by English playwright [[Mark Ravenhill]].
  
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''The sexual violence of ''Shopping and Fucking'' explores what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything, including sex, violence and drugs, is reduced to a mere transaction in an age where shopping centres are the new cathedrals of Western consumerism. Aspects of consumerism and sexuality rampant in popular culture recur throughout the play: drugs, shoplifting, phone sex, prostitution, anal sex, and oral sex in the London department store Harvey Nichols.'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_and_Fucking]
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 07:21, 4 September 2014

A 1996 play by English playwright Mark Ravenhill.

Subject

The sexual violence of Shopping and Fucking explores what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything, including sex, violence and drugs, is reduced to a mere transaction in an age where shopping centres are the new cathedrals of Western consumerism. Aspects of consumerism and sexuality rampant in popular culture recur throughout the play: drugs, shoplifting, phone sex, prostitution, anal sex, and oral sex in the London department store Harvey Nichols. [1]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Staged in the Market Theatre in May/June 1998, directed by Yael Farber, with Anthony Bishop, Brian Webber, Peter Guy, Nick Boraine, Sylvaine Strike.

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