Some Explicit
Polaroids
A Play By Mark
Ravenhill
Welcome to happy world!!!
Nick was in prison for 15
years because of a politically motivated murder attempt. Free at last, he feels
like a stranger in a strange land. Helen, his ex-lover and partner in
revolution, is a member of the city council and deals with prosaic
All three are part of the
new apolitical fun generation whose search for the meaning of life means
indulging in trash culture, drugs, the fashion and piercing lifestyle and a
desperate/aggressive sexuality. Nick is completely bewildered and disorientated
as his strict Marxism is at odds with the modern Britain of retail and
consumption and by the reigning fun generation‘s lack of interest in “true
values”.
Confronted by his erstwhile
victim, Jonathan, Nick realises that his old enemy, a global money player, is no
longer a worthy adversary...
The images Ravenhill uses
to depict social reality are garish and provocative, but genuine. He tantalises
us with snapshots of a rapidly changing world in which the old views of society
have long since lost their validity. Political utopias and lifestyles collide
with the trash and fun culture of modern day
After its very successful
production of “Harvey” in 2004, this year the English Drama Group Münster
presents a play by one of the most important representatives of a new generation
of British playwrights. Mark Ravenhill’s first play, “Shopping and Fucking”, was
chosen as the best foreign play of 1998 in a survey of drama critics by “Theater
Heute.” His play “Some Explicit Polaroids” premiered in