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SHOPPING & FUCKING
by: Mark Ravenhill
Directed by: Iva Milošević
Premiere: 21 February 2002
Running time approx. 1h 50’ |
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Cast
LULU: Nataša Marković
ROBBIE: Bojan Dimitrijević
MARK: Igor Filipović
BRIAN: Goran Daničić
GARRY: Goran Jevtić
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ABOUT THE WRITER
Mark Ravenhill was born in 1966 in Haywards Heath (West Sussex). Studied drama and English at Bristol University. At first thought of acting as a probable career, but soon gave up and concentrated on directing student productions. His first job was assistant administrator at Soho Poly, a new theatre for writers. Then he became an independent director. Taught dramaturgy and radio at Finnborough Theatre. Shortly before Christmas 1994 directed Hansel and Gretchen. Then he returned to London and together with Luis Mullway created a series of short erotic pieces I’ll Show You Mine. Then came the playlet Fist in which two men talk about sex for ten minutes. During the one-week showing he met director Max Stafford who asked for a full-length play. In the spring of 1995 Ravenhill finished the first draft of a play whose working title was Fucking Diane. The title of the play was later changed into Shopping and Fucking. In June 1996 Max Stafford directed Shopping & Fucking in a two-week workshop in the National Studio. The play underwent a number of changes before the final version was created.
Mark Ravenhill is the author of five more full-length plays: Faust is Dead 1997, Sleeping Around 1998, Handbag 1998, Some Explicit Polaroids 1999, Mother Clap’s Molly House 2001.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Iva Milošević was born in 1977. She studied theatre and
radio directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
Assisted in the performance of In the Flame of Passion
(Zvezdara Theatre). Directed the one-act play The Magic Afternoon
of Wolfgang Bauer at the Bitef Theatre in 1998. She graduated
with Shopping and Fucking (under Professor Nikola Jeftić).
She has also directed Kazimir and Karolina by Ödön von
Horvath (the National Theatre of Sombor), Bash by Neil
LaBute.
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REVIEWS
The strength of Mark Ravenhill comes from his mercilessness. He has no mercy for the environment which he describes as nothing but ideal. He goes as far as to describe physiological details of a homosexual intercourse. All this with the intention of showing that in a world where money can buy even the most extraordinary sexual pleasures there is a deep longing for love.
Yes, Shopping & Fucking is a drama of love. And that is why we, the YDT and CENPI, have included it in our repertory. Not as a hit, as a scandal, as a bizarre play, but as evidence of the longing for beauty, emotion and also purity, which is not at all easy to find in the modern world.
Shopping and Fucking and... Loving, Jovan Ćirilov, Programme for the Performance
...Iva Milošević does not seem to be in the least fascinated by the character of the rebellion of Ravenhill's dramatis personae, and is even less ready to justify or pity them. Perceiving them as a member of the same generation, the director recognizes their rebellion as a fall, but also as a pose of a kind, in which they do not manage to hide a considerable measure of self-satisfaction because of their own destruction. For, their self-destruction does not resemble the conscious destruction of de Sade, but is presented in this play like a model's walk at a fashion parade, or the strutting of posers deprived of an authentic tragic dimension that their predecessors nevertheless possessed...
Both Sides of Rebellion, Aleksandar Milosavljević, Glas
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