Cover; Contents; Mark Ravenhill: 1966-; Plot; Commentary; Political theatre; Thatcherism and the consumer society; The decline of the Left; Searching for values; 'Blank generation'; Irony; Fathers; Violence and the body; From 'gay' to 'queer'; Queer theatre; Shopping and fucking; Production history; Further Reading; SHOPPING AND FUCKING; Notes; Questions for Further Study
Summary
Part of the "in-yer-face" movement in 1990s British theatre that dealt frankly with issues of sex and violence as well as pointedly challenging societal values, this play follows five characters conducting hedonistic, self-destructive lives in a grim microcosm of drugs, shoplifting, prostitution, and sexual adventure, reflecting a society corrupted by consumerism and in a state of moral decline
