SHOPPEN & FICKEN
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
German Premiere
A production of the Baracke at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
A night in London: Mark wants to escape from drugs and everything else that leads to emotional addiction. He leaves Robbie and meets Gary, a call-boy. Lulu has to help Robbie out of deep shit. In an attempt to deal with Ecstasy, he has given away all his pills to customers – the best party of his life. Now he urgently needs 3,000 pounds to pay off his debts. The situation is hopeless; then Mark comes back with Gary. Gary has money. Robbie begins ...
German Premiere
A production of the Baracke at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
A night in London: Mark wants to escape from drugs and everything else that leads to emotional addiction. He leaves Robbie and meets Gary, a call-boy. Lulu has to help Robbie out of deep shit. In an attempt to deal with Ecstasy, he has given away all his pills to customers – the best party of his life. Now he urgently needs 3,000 pounds to pay off his debts. The situation is hopeless; then Mark comes back with Gary. Gary has money. Robbie begins a dangerous game with Gary’s secret wishes and desires.
Mark Ravenhill’s first full-length play »Shopping & Fucking« was premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1996. The production by Thomas Ostermeier at the Baracke am Deutschen Theater Berlin, which could also be seen at the Theatertreffen in 1998, is the German-language premiere. »Shopping & Fucking«
has been translated into several languages and performed all over Europe.
- Thomas Ostermeier Rufus Didwiszus Marion Münch Jörg Gollasch Jens Hillje Gerd Franke Thomas Bading Jule Böwe Bruno Cathomas André Szymanski Bernd Stempel