Mark Ravenhill Plays: 1: Shopping and F***ing; Faust is Dead; Handbag; Some Explicit Polaroids (Contemporary Dramatists)

"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" Time Out "There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism." - Financial Times Shopping and Fucking: "is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ... a real coup de theatre" - Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard Faust: "...an intelligent and witty reappropriation of the legend ... alive, pertinent and disturbing" - Michael Coveney, Observer Handbag: "...combines urban grit with sly wit, and reveals Mark Ravenhill as a writer of real daring" - Daily Telegraph Some Explicit Polaroids: "laudably ambitious, pulsates with energy ... very funny" - Financial Times ""John Godber is one of the unsung heroes of British theatre, reaching the giddy heights of number three in the most-performed playwrights league table, nestled in behind Shakespeare and Ayckbourn""--Guardian. Bouncers, a play about nightlife: ""A show that's worth braving any front of house, however formidable ... simply spellbinding"" Guardian; Happy Families: ""The inseparable contradictions of family love and oppression are carefully held in this fine comedy ... superb characterisation ... the rhythms of Godber's dialogue are freshly funny, the pace precise"" (Independent); Shakers, a pla 1. Shopping And Fucking ; Faust Is Dead ; Handbag ; Some Explicit Polaroids -- 2. Mother Clap's Molly House ; Product ; The Cut ; Citizenship ; Pool (no Water). Mark Ravenhill ; Introduced By Dan Rebellato. The first collected volume of plays from the most important playwright of the last decade. Ravenhill's work is dark, disturbing, explicit and gripping. Collected into one volume, this collection includes four plays by Mark Ravenhill