Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
First produced in 2005 at London's National Theatre, 'Citizenship' is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by a...
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First produced in 2005 at London's National Theatre, 'Citizenship' is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he's not sure whether by a man or by a woman, and he feels he should choose pretty quickly. His friends' homophobic teasing and interrogations about what he did with his friend Amy the other night leave Tom no space to make up his mind, and he's got no one to ask for advice, except maybe people on the internet. 'Citizenship' captures adolescent confusion with a witty and sensitive charm, crackling with humorous and authentic dialogue.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Mother Clap's Molly House', a black comedy with songs, is a riotous celebration of the diversity of human sexuality, skipping between eighteenth century London and 2001, where a group of wealthy gay men are preparing the drugs and video cameras for...
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'Mother Clap's Molly House', a black comedy with songs, is a riotous celebration of the diversity of human sexuality, skipping between eighteenth century London and 2001, where a group of wealthy gay men are preparing the drugs and video cameras for a sex party. The play is both an affectionate examination of the vitality and liberation of the molly house's counterculture, and a regretful comment on the commodification of sex and love. 'Mother Clap's Molly House' premiered in 2001 at the National Theatre, London.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Product' is a satirical monologue, a movie script pitched to a silent actress about a woman who falls in love with a suicide bomber. The producer offers the story of a beautiful, wounded woman, a dark stranger, sublime passion, a nightmare, a...
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'Product' is a satirical monologue, a movie script pitched to a silent actress about a woman who falls in love with a suicide bomber. The producer offers the story of a beautiful, wounded woman, a dark stranger, sublime passion, a nightmare, a suicide pact: it is the script that made him cry, that he had to produce. Ravenhill's arch, perfectly observed satire of Hollywood's worst clichés spikily undercuts the producer's sycophantic pitch. 'Product' interrogates society's desperate need for narrative and for closure, an intelligent and immediate discussion of the media's response to terrorism. The play was first presented in 2005 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Verlag:
Bloomsbury, London
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
First staged in 2006 at the Donmar Warehouse, 'The Cut' is the story of Paul, the dystopia he lives in, and a streamlined system of oppression with a monstrous, throbbing pain at its core. He is an ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home, he is...
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First staged in 2006 at the Donmar Warehouse, 'The Cut' is the story of Paul, the dystopia he lives in, and a streamlined system of oppression with a monstrous, throbbing pain at its core. He is an ordinary man with a shocking secret. At home, he is a loving husband and father. At work, he administers the cut. In a society sickened by his profession, Paul struggles with his conscience and longs to tell the truth. The main themes touch upon the individual's place in society and the arbitrariness of governments policies which set up the norm against one's morale.