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Shopping and F***ing by Mark Ravenhill
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"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.