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| Shopping and Fucking | |
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| Written by | Mark Ravenhill |
| Characters | Lulu Robbie Mark Gary Brian |
| Date premiered | 26 September 1996 |
| Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | In-yer-face theatre |
Shopping and Fucking (sometimes billed as Shopping and F**king) is a 1996 play by British playwright Mark Ravenhill. It was Ravenhill's first full-length play. It received its first public reading at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It was performed in 1996 at the Royal Court Upstairs (located temporarily at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End), before embarking on a national and international tour, co-produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre.
When first produced, Shopping and Fucking received mixed reviews. Some were shocked by the play's sexually violent content, which includes the pseudo-rape of an underage male by other males. Other critics were drawn to the play's black humour, and its mixture of Sadean and Marxist philosophies. Along with Sarah Kane's Blasted, it was a prime exemplar of British in-yer-face theatre of the 1990s.