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When first produced, ''Shopping and Fucking'' received mixed reviews. Some were clearly shocked by the play's sexually-violent content, which includes the pseudo-rape of an underage male by other males. Other critics were drawn to the play's black humour, and its mixture of Sadean and Marxist philosophies. Whatever one's opinion of ''Shopping and Fucking'', it is, along with the late Sarah Kane 's '' Blasted '', at the cutting edge of British In-yer-face Theatre of the 1990s. CENTRAL THEMES The sexual violence of ''Shopping and Fucking'' explores what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything, included sex, violence and drugs, is reduced to a mere transaction in an age where shopping centres are the new cathedrals of Western consumerism. Such sadistic violence recalls the "aesthetic" of the , England , pop boy band Take That (1990-96; 2006- ). Aspects of consumerism and sexuality rampant in popular culture recur throughout the play: drugs, shoplifting, phone sex, prostitution, anal sex, and oral sex in the London department store Harvey Nichols . NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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