Ravenhill Plays: 2

Published to coincide with the London production of the author's Edinburgh Festival play, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, that opens in April and plays at the National Theatre and the Royal Court, besides others Citizenship was revived by the National Theatre in November 2007 owing to the success of the original production in 2006. 'One of his very best plays... it captures brilliantly the sexual insecurity of adolescence.' Guardian Product was produced at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival; it has since toured the UK and been produced in numerous countries overseas Ravenhill Plays:1 (2001) is one of the best-selling volumes in the Contemporary Dramatists series. The author's seminal debut play, Shopping and F***ing, remains a popular text for students and theatre fans

Five recent hit plays by one of the most talented writers to emerge from the 1990s who made his mark with the seminal Shopping and F***ing.Mark Ravenhill has established himself as one of the most important playwrights to emerge from the 1990s. Provocative, dark, witty and satirical, his plays consistently probe the debased culture of our times. This second volume of plays brings together five plays from 2001-07. It includes Mother Clap's Molly House, a black comedy and celebration of human sexuality that premiered at the National Theatre in 2001; Citizenship, a bitter-sweet comedy about growing up that was developed by the National Theatre's Shell Connections programme in 2005; The Cut, a disturbing political fable that opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006; Product, Ravenhill's one man satire on the media industry that since its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005, has been produced around the world, and Pool (no water), a shocking examination of the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. The volume features an introduction by the author and a chronology of his work.