Shopping and F***ing

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It tells the story of Gary (Antony Ryding), a 14 year-old rent boy who ran away from home after being repeatedly raped by his step father. However it seems this experience with his step father has effected him so bad that he finds he needs hard sex and to be dominated to get pleasure. He befriends a punter called Mark ( James Kennedy). Yes. Yes. I’m teaching. You’re learning. Money is civilization. And civilization is … say it . Don’t get frightened now. And civilization is …” Sensing Others through Dancing Bodies as Data: Review of Sense Datum by UBIN DANCE 26th November 2023 I mean, are there any feelings left, you know?” asks Mark forlornly. There aren’t, really. There are needs . And the cause of all this sullen alienation? Money! Mr. Ravenhill’s message about the corrupting power of the god of consumerism amounts to the unsurprising pronouncement that money is the root of all evil. Unlike Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting , Mr. Ravenhill is a moralist. He disapproves of consumer society, warning us repeatedly in virtually every scene that everything is the art of the deal, like sex and shopping.

Pretty regular. The important thing for me right now, for my needs, is that this doesn’t actually mean anything, you know? Which is why I wanted something that was a transaction. Because I thought if I pay then it won’t mean anything. Do you think that’s right – in your experience?” Nice to MITEM you: the 10th edition of the Madách International Theatre Meeting Opens in the Hungarian Capital 27th September 2023 On the other hand, The New York Times favors the ‘it doesn’t exist’ formula. It has prudishly renamed the play Shopping and …. Everyone does it, no one will name it! The Times doesn’t even give it an asterisk or two. Three little dots must suffice. “How was it for you, my darling?”“That was the greatest three little dots I ever had in my life!”MR: What was it like for my career? Almost entirely positive, I think. The only thing was that people did have slightly weird expectations of me, that I was one of those characters. Even though I’ve dutifully done 20 years of appearing on Radio 4 and writing articles for The Guardian, there’s still an expectation that I will be a heroin addict. People are very disappointed by people who are educated; they’d rather a playwright hadn’t read anything. October-5 November 2016 – Lyric Hammersmith. Directed by Sean Holmes. Alphabetically, this production starred Alex Arnold as Robbie, Ashley McGuire as Brian, David Moorst as Gary, Sam Spruell as Mark and Sophie Wu as Lulu. Postavy majú veľkú sexuálnu slobodu, filozofia ich života sa krúti okolo sexu, lásky, drog, okolo slobody a peňazí, sú poznačené kapitalizmom a chcú stále viac a viac.

It made me think a lot about the difference between want and need. We’re living in a selfish age and we’re all falling victim to the belief that “I’ll be happy when ...”. I’ll be happy when I get those trainers and that boyfriend and that amount of money in my bank account and that postcode and that number of likes on Facebook. We’re chasing the want but not fully knowing what we need. And that can so easily get ugly because of all the things you might do in the pursuit of happiness. Sean Holmes, director: I thought what was really interesting about it was how prophetic the play was. There’s the element of everyone telling stories about themselves, which obviously the internet and social media allows you to do to a far greater degree, and the way it’s very hard to avoid everything becoming a transaction in a world that is a capitalist mono-system. I think that theme feels very contemporary and more in the spirit of the age than it was even twenty years ago.

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Ravenhill’s play is both distinctly of its time, in the way it skewered the bleakness of Thatcher’s legacy on a generation of youngsters, and yet also prophetic. It neatly reflects the anxieties and monetary obsessions of youngsters living in a post-financial crash world where you are what you own; where even intimacy comes at a terrible price or must be avoided at all costs; and where loneliness is corrosive. “Are there any feelings left?” muses Mark on his odyssey in which he tries to reduce everything to a transaction only to discover that love gets in the way. Každopádne - Ravenhill je pre mňa cool dramatik (to je teraz vtip, lebo on a Sarah Kane sú priekopníkmi písania drámy, kt. sa volá cool dráma hehe)