Mark Ravenhill Livres

The first collected volume of plays from the most important playwright of the last decade. Ravenhill's work is dark, disturbing, explicit and gripping.

Mark Ravenhill's Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual realityThe world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star. In a round of chat show appearances, he announces the Death of Man and the End of History. When he meets up with a young man who is on the run from his father, a leading software magnate, they embark on a hedonistic voyage across America. But in the play's bloody conclusion, they discover that not all events are virtual."In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he's put videos and Net-surfing in FAUST. And it's no less stunning." (The Guardian)

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition. "Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings ...a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh, EVENING STANDARD "Plunges you into the world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced to transactions ...strong stuff" Paul Taylor, INDEPENDENT "Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" TIME OUT

Autor, známy najmä vďaka svojej škandálnej prvotine Shopping and Fucking a filozofujúcej hre Faust, aj vo svojich novších hrách kontroverzným spôsobom analyzuje identitu človeka globálneho veľkomesta na prelome tisícročí. Preklad Svetlana Žuchová.

Svetoznámy filozof prichádza do Los Angeles, kde ho vítajú ako hviezdu. Počas jednej televíznej besedy ohlási Smrť Človeka a Koniec dejín. Keď sa zoznámi s jedným mladíkom, ktorý uteká pred svojím otcom, softwarovým magnátom, vydajú sa na cestu po Amerike. Ale v krvavom závere hry pochopia, že nie všetko je virtuálne.