Mark Ravenhill has certainly come a long way in the eleven years it's taken him to get from his first play, Shopping and Fucking, to his epic cycle, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat. In regards to the In-Yer-Face school into which he was siphoned - along with Sarah Kane, amongst others - early in his career, he denies any formal sense of a group at the time and replies, elusively, "I think it was kind of in the air everywhere." But he's never been out to shock. "With each play," he says, "you hope to surprise yourself and explore new stuff, and you're trying to listen to what's happening in the world and trying to put that in your play, and obviously the world doesn't stand still, so it constantly evolves."
I've also got a review of the recent Cheek by Jowl production of Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov at the Barbican up there.
Enjoy!
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