Mark Ravenhill's brilliant, brutal and flawed debut play, Shopping And Fucking, about a group of sad, young London'
flat-sharers who saw sex as just another kind of commercial transaction, and who found shopping, or rather shoplifting,
a sexual turn-on, included scenes of vomiting, buggery, oral, sexual intercourse and rimming. Read More....

“Sell your soul to get a ticket”

“Nick Philippou’s meticulous production”

“a pair of sharply realised, understated performances from Alain Pelletier... and Pete Bailie”

“Irvine Welsh would not quarrel with a word of it”

“a brilliantly self-denying piece of mythology”

“Mark Ravenhill writes with a sense of cool indignation that I like, and he gets a cool, hard, high-tech production from
Nick Philippou and the Actors Touring Company”

“Nick Philippou’s production does expert justice to the drama’s tart, tricky mode”

“Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation is more of a deconstruction of the Faust myth; ruminative, questioning, intelligent often
queasily funny... disappointing news for any visiting dirty mac brigade”

“A remarkable staging of Faust”

“menacing, bizarrely jumpy yet unsettingly, amusingly true to life... strangely riveting”

“it has a ghastly fascination and Philippou’s production is perfectly cast”

“... an intelligent and witty reappropriation of the legend... alive, pertinent and disturbing.”

“a mind-bender, rife with subversive insights and argument starters”

“a rare example of a genuinely theatrical multi-media experience, not just a play with knobs on”