Shopping and Fucking

Shopping and fucking was a theatre production by Turboteateret, Bergen.

The play Shopping and fucking was written by the British playwright Mark Ravenhill. It had its world wide premiere in London in 1996 and is counted among the most important plays within the in-yer-face tradition.

Information

(Objekt ID 7180)
Object type Production
Premiere March 18, 1999
Produced by Turboteateret
Coproducers BIT Teatergarasjen
In collaboration with Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre)
Based on Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill
Audience Youth, Adults
Language Norwegian
Keywords Theatre
Running period March 18, 1999  

Requirements to venue

Blackout Yes
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In the spring program of BIT Teatergarasjen in 1999 the following is written about Shopping and Fucking by Turboteatret:

"Turboteatret will as the first theatre company in Norway produce the internationally acclaimed Mark Ravenhill play Shopping and Fucking. This cult piece has been performed in most European countries and everywhere it has gained a lot of attention for its radical form.

It has been butchered, labelled as an anarchist and vulgar piece of crap and hailed as the most ingenious dramaturgy of the decade. In every country where the play has been performed, it has been greatly debated: Does it represent 'the new theatre', and if so, do we want it to be so?

Shopping and Fucking is raw oral sex, cocaine sniffing and bloody anal sex in a perverted, ethically empty age. Ravenhill describes the desperate search to feel something, strongly. To be moved. His thesis is that all that matters to young people of today is shopping and fucking.

A young and unafraid cast is necessary to stage this raw and brutal play. Turboteatret has made its mark as one of the new theatre initiatives of the town and have proven great capacity for stunts and appear to the audience through their performances."

Sources:

Birthe-Lisbeth Ludvigsen: The University of Bergen paper Frie teatergrupper og prosjektteater i Bergen 1970-2006 - en kontekstualisert oversikt og beskrivelse (literally: Independent Theatre Companies and Project Theatres in Bergen 1970-2006 – a contextualized overview and description), UiB 2007

Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org, 20.08.2011, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_and_Fucking

Spring program 1999, BIT Teatergarasjen

Contributors (13)
Name Role
Mark Ravenhill – Playwright
Kjersti Horn – Translation
Kjersti Horn – Direction
Kjersti Horn – Stage design
Njål Helge Mjøs – Stage design
Lars Årdal – Sound design
Kristjan Belgau – Lighting design
Øivind Egeland – Actor (Mark)
Kristofer Hivju – Actor (Brian)
Lill Jacobsen – Actor (Lulu)
Eric Magnusson – Actor (Gary)
Njål Helge Mjøs – Actor (Robbie)
Njål Helge Mjøs – Producer
Performance dates
May 5, 1999Caféscenen, Centralteatret, Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre) visiting performance
March 26, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 25, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 24, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 23, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 22, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 21, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 20, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 19, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen Show
March 18, 1999BIT Teatergarasjen National premiere, Norway