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Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play Shopping and Fucking was produced in 1996 at the Royal Court. It launched him to immediate fame and defined the stage writing of 1990s. Since then, he has continued to garner critical acclaim for controversial and plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids (Out of Joint), Mother Clap's Molly House (National Theatre), Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (Paines Plough/National Theatre) and most recently Over There (Royal Court).
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'A Life in Three Acts is Mark Ravenhill's genial engagement with the life and times of actor, activist and drag queen Bette Bourne, and is a turnaround from the increasingly conceptual furrow the playwright has ploughed of late.' Andrzej Lukowski, Metro (London), 24.9.09 '[A Life in Three Acts] is based on a series of edited transcripts of conversations that have taken place...bewteen [Bette] Bourne and playwright Mark Ravenhill. If that sounds dull, it isn't - at least not to anyone with an interest in tehatre history (Bourne began his career playing at the Old Vic and alongside Ian McKellin in Edward II), working-class social history, gay rights, other people's families and sparkly frocks. By my reckoning, that covers pretty much most of the population.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 21.8.09 'Bourne's reminiscences are rich, ripe and often wonderfully funny' : 'The mixture of anger, compassion and emotional rawness here, combined with a rigorous lack of sentimentality, strikes me as admirable' Charles Spencer, The Telegraph,10.02.10 'The result is a frank and often wildly funny script: a vivid look at Gay Lib, as well as a personal portrait of a radical actor.' Whatsonstage.com (February 2010)
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- PublisherMethuen Drama
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1408125218
- ISBN 13 9781408125212
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