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Scenes from Family Life
by Mark Ravenhill
Jack and Lisa: two ordinary teenagers who want to have a baby. Only problem is Lisa keeps vanishing – literally – into thin air. Their friends Barry and Stacy, who is eight months pregnant, have the same problem. Soon, everyone in the whole world is dematerialising. Six months on and Jack and Stacy are the only boy and girl on the planet. For Jack it’s a dream, for Stacy a nightmare. And when the vanished start to return, Jack has to learn how complex adult relationships are.
Mark Ravenhill’s plays include Shopping and Fucking, Faust is Dead, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids and, at the National, Mother Clap’s Molly House, and for Connections, Totally Over You and Citizenship. Recent plays include The Cut at the Donmar Warehouse, pool (no water) for Frantic Assembly, and Dick Whittington and His Cat, the Barbican’s
first pantomime. His seventeen-play cycle Shoot, Get Treasure, Repeat was given readings at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2007 and have recently had full productions in London in 2008.
Performed by Kildare Youth Theatre, Ireland
The search for identity pulses through New Connections 2008: for acceptance and survival in modern Britain, for racial equality in 1960s South Africa, by deception in magical allotments, during white-out in a snow blizzard, through parenting, through faith, or by comic mistakes of social networking.
Scenes from Family Life finished on: 3 July 2008
