pool (no water)' and 'Citizenship'

A programme text to coincide with the tour of pool (no water) by Frantic Assembly Tours to: Drum Theatre, Plymouth (22 Sept- 7 Oct); Liverpool Everyman Theatre(9 -14 Oct); Contact, Manchester (16 - 21 Oct), Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (31 Oct - 18 Nov) and The Point, Eastleigh (21-23 Nov) 'One of his very best plays. Ravenhill captures excellently the sexual insecurity of adolescence as well as the infinite curiosity.' Guardian (on Citizenship at the National Theatre April-June 2006) '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

Two exhilarating plays by the author of Shopping and F***ing: pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success; Citizenship is a work for young people written for the National Theatre's Shell Connection Programme.A famous artist invites her old friends out to her luxurious new home and, for one night only, the group is back together. However, celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers an horrific accident. As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art? The group is ecstatic in its new found project until things slip out of their control and, to the surprise of all, the patient awakes...pool (no water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success. Citizenship is a bittersweet comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. It was developed as part of the National Theatre Shell Connections 2005 Programme