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Mark Ravenhill trained at Bristol University. His first full-length play, Shopping and F***ing, open ed at the Royal Court Theatre, Upstairs, in September 1996. It transferred to the West End in June 1 997 and opened in New York in January 1998. It has subsequently been produced all over the world. Hi s other plays include Faust, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids and Mother Clap's Molly House."'Shopping And F***ing is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings... a real coup de theatre' Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard"
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