Shopping and F***ing

Its summer. Im in a supermarket. Its hot and Im sweaty. Damp. And Im watching this couple shopping. Im watching you. And youre both smiling. You see me and you know sort of straight away that Im going to have you. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink-wrapped world. A place where shopping is sexy and fucking is a job. Ravenhills play is a prophetic vision of our twenty-first century world. It received its world premiere in 1996 in a production by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre, and has been published in this edition to coincide with the 2016 revival of the play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.