First look at Shopping and F***ing at the Lyric Hammersmith

Dom O'Hanlon
Dom O'Hanlon

Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking opens at the Lyric Hammersmith this evening, 12 October 2016, where it continues to run to 5 November 2016. This new production is directed by Sean Holmes and features Alex Arnold (Robbie), Ashley McGuire (Brian), David Moorst (Gary), Sam Spruell (Mark) and Sophie Wu (Lulu).

"Twenty years since its explosive premiere, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes brings Mark Ravenhill's provocative first play, Shopping and Fucking back to the stage. With a raw mixture of black humour and bleak philosophy, the play follows three disconnected young adults whose lives have been reduced to a series of transactions in an emotionally shrink wrapped world. A place where Shopping is sexy and Fucking is a job."

Check out the pictures from the production below. All photos are by Helen Murray.

Shopping and Fucking runs at the Lyric Hammersmith until 5 November 2016.

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