"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...
"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation"--Time Out
A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers an horrific accident.
As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art? The group is ecstatic in its new found project until things slip out of their control and, to the surprise of all, the patient awakes?
pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy...
A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations co...
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, actor Bette Bourne reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood,a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette then talks about his touring with the New York based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, Bloolips, which redefined the term...
With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted fro...
'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation' Time Out
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat 'A dramatic cycle that is, in its way, epic, but is splintered into many small shards... touches deftly on the impact of war on everyone involved' Financial Times
Over There 'Ravenhill explores postwar Germany's division and unification through the power battles between twin brothers. The result is fantastically clever and ingenious' Guardian
A Life in Three Acts 'By turns charming,...
'Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation' Time Out
The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I.
Into the world of the disheartened composer enters the exuberant and passionate Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav and an accomplished musician in her own right. Her candid and can-do attitude proves to be the perfect foil for the capricious and often maddening Britten, and what begins as an arrangement of practical support turns into a bond that not only sees Gloriana to its premiere but endures throughout the rest...
The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about ...
