Mark Ravenhill ( June 7, 1966 ) - English playwright , actor and journalist.
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| Date of Birth | June 7, 1966 (53 years old) |
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| Occupation | playwright |
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| Debut | 1995 |
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Biography
Mark Ravenhill was born on June 7, 1966 . He studied at the University of Bristol , where he studied drama and philology. He worked as a theater director. In 1995 he made his debut one-act play “Fist”. After one director asked if Mark had a big play, he wrote “ Shopping and Fucking ” in record time.
Mark Ravenhill is considered the largest English playwright of our time [2] , the leader of the British " theater of cruelty ." The plays “Shopping & Fucking” and “Several Polaroid Shots” became world hits and turned, in essence, into manifestos of the acute social drama of the 1990s [2] .
Pieces
- 1995 - Fist
- 1996 - “Shopping & Fucking” (“Shopping and Sex”)
- 1997 - Faust Is Dead
- 1999 - “Some Explicit Polaroids”
- 2005 - “Product”
- 2006 - “pool (no water)”
- 2006 - Citizenship
- 2008 - “Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat”
- 2009 - "Over There"
- 2009 - The Experiment
- 2011 - Ten Plagues
Quotes
- “Our current theater system is quite easily recognizable from the point of view of the Soviet attitude to production. This is not to say that we have enough demand for new drama, as well as the product itself. However, there is a machine specially created, and for its work it is necessary to open more than one hundred new playwrights a year. Thus, people have to be recruited, convinced that they want to write for the theater, and then skipped through a very long process - to engage with them to help them acquire some kind of dramatic skills. In the end, they will probably produce something remotely resembling a play, and it is possible that it will appear on the scene. In a word, all this is somewhat reminiscent of those experiments in agriculture that were carried out in the Soviet Union in the 30s, 40s, 50s ” [3] - Mark Ravenhill, 2010 .
Performances in Russia
- 2012 - “Shoot / Get treasure / Repeat” (dir. D. Volkostrelov , S. Alexandrovsky . Post Theater , St. Petersburg [4] ).
- 2008 - “Shopping & fucking” (dir. S. Schipitsin, Theater “ Shelter of the Comedian ”, St. Petersburg).
- 2009 - “Totally over you” (directed by O. Goetze, Young Spectator Theater, Yekaterinburg)
- 2009 - “Totally over you” (dir. A. Avkhodeev, Young Spectator Theater, Volgograd)
- 2002 - “Frank Polaroid Images” (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov, A. Pushkin Theater, Moscow)
Links
A Study of Drama by M. Ravenhill
Sierz, Alex "In-Yer-Face Theater: British Drama Today" (Faber, 2001)
Sources
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ 1 2 Dolzhansky R. Pure “Product” // Kommersant. - 2006. - June 7.
- ↑ Aslanyan A. Mark Ravenhill: “The British theater is like Soviet agriculture” // www.svobodanews.ru. - 2010. - Aug 12.
- ↑ Berman N. Post-theater syndrome // www.gazeta.ru. - 2012. - Aug 27.