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isitelligenz's review against another edition
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
emilybgo's review
“I have this personality you see? Part of me that gets addicted. I have a tendency to define myself purely in terms of my relationship to others. I have no definition of myself you see. So I attach myself to others as a means of avoidance, of avoiding knowing the self. Which is actually potentially very destructive. For me — destructive for me… Get attached to people, to these emotions, then I'm back to where I started. Which is why, though it may seem uncaring, I'm going to have to go. You're gonna be OK? I’m sorry.”
uri_a's review
1.0
"Mr. Ravenhill’s slack, simple-minded message is as flashily empty as the neon signs that illuminate the drama’s anonymous grungy set, and I’m not about to indulge it. Yet several admiring articles I’ve read about the play compare it favorably, almost inevitably, to the social rage and newness of John Osborne’s 1956 Look Back in Anger . How is it possible?
The Osborne landmark shocked an entire theatergoing generation into a new awareness of England precisely because nothing like it had been written before. Its antihero, Jimmy Porter, is characterized by passion, not Mr. Ravenhill’s empty disenchantment. The play is about love. It’s about love and class war and bad marriages and boring Sunday papers. It’s also about a nostalgia for the civility of Edwardian England. In other words, Look Back in Anger is about everything that Shopping and Fucking isn’t about."
By John Heilpern | 02/16/98 12:00am
Read more at http://observer.com/1998/02/shopping-and-fucking-is-that-all-there-is/#ixzz3ReI5ncH1
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I totally agree!
Estic totalment d'acord amb el que diu aquest senyor Heilpern.
The Osborne landmark shocked an entire theatergoing generation into a new awareness of England precisely because nothing like it had been written before. Its antihero, Jimmy Porter, is characterized by passion, not Mr. Ravenhill’s empty disenchantment. The play is about love. It’s about love and class war and bad marriages and boring Sunday papers. It’s also about a nostalgia for the civility of Edwardian England. In other words, Look Back in Anger is about everything that Shopping and Fucking isn’t about."
By John Heilpern | 02/16/98 12:00am
Read more at http://observer.com/1998/02/shopping-and-fucking-is-that-all-there-is/#ixzz3ReI5ncH1
Follow us: @newyorkobserver on Twitter | newyorkobserver on Facebook
I totally agree!
Estic totalment d'acord amb el que diu aquest senyor Heilpern.
paula_2801's review
Had to read it for school. Would have never tortured myself with this shit by choice.
babeyreneess's review
1.0
I don't understand the purpose of this play...
Sex drug and microwave.lol k then.
Why do I had to read for uni though??
Sex drug and microwave.lol k then.
Why do I had to read for uni though??
jaimiward's review
4.0
This is a wonderful play that gets straight to the point. No metaphors or hidden subtext it just puts everything on the table. I would really like to see a production of this one day to fully understand the confrontational text and how it was rightfully part of the 'In your Face' theatre movement in the UK in the 90's. The play clearly comments on how consumerism has become part of our societal value system and how that it is integrated into our everyday lives. It is shocking and explicit and humorous, ticking all the boxes of a good play.
booksbysoph's review
1.0
This just really didn’t sit right with me, I found a lot of it to be grotesque and sort of vile.
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