Shopping and Fucking (Methuen Modern Plays)

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Summary: If you think this is not funny, you are very very afraid
Review: I have seen this play twice, as well as read it, and if you did not think it was funny when you saw it, there was something wrong with the production. Although this play handles some of the largest themes in recent British theatre, and tackles some very difficult subject matter, it is not without it's humor. Any play handling this material without humor would utterly fail. Ravenhill is writing about the problems of life in the technological age. Pinter + 21st century = Ravenhill. Play changed my life on a small scale, and takes several subsequent reads to fully appreciate. A must for anyone interested in the theatre.

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Summary: Saw it in the theater
Review: I haven't read this book but I saw it in the theater. The story is NOT AT ALL funny! If it is funny for you you don't understand it. It is about the problems of the consuming/er(?) society.

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Summary: absolutely extraordinary play
Review: I read this play, and then recently saw the version put on by Vortex, in Austin, TX, directed by Barry Pineo. The play is absolutely extraordinary. I couldn't stop crying through the next to last scene. It's an extremely powerful indictment of the emptiness of modern culture. A must see.

Rating:
Summary: absolutely extraordinary play
Review: I read this play, and then recently saw the version put on by Vortex, in Austin, TX, directed by Barry Pineo. The play is absolutely extraordinary. I couldn't stop crying through the next to last scene. It's an extremely powerful indictment of the emptiness of modern culture. A must see.