Handbag

Handbag

by Mark Ravenhill

From celebrated playwright Mark Ravenhill, one of the most widely performed British playwrights of the last three decades, comes the rarely performed Handbag - an overwhelmingly funny yet acutely shocking play that truly feels like no other.

The unique premise interweaves the modern world themes of parenthood, identity, responsibility and lost opportunities, with a love letter to some of Oscar Wilde’s most iconic characters (but not quite as we might know them). Handbag is a triumph in challenging theatre.

Trigger Warning - contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

Performed by the final year students on the ACT Two Year Dioploma course.

Directed by William Ellis.

"In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he's put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it's no less stunning" (Guardian)

"There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism" (Financial Times)

Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap's Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.