An outrageous media-take on militant Islam, and a cranky perspective on the birth of Christianity are amusingly dramatised in an evening comprised of two monologues, which can be seen as individual shows or a piquant pairing. In Product World: Remix, the playwright Mark Ravenhill performs an expanded version of the piece he premiered at the…
As well as being a playwright, Mark Ravenhill is also a witty and astute newspaper columnist, writing about the business of being a playwright. And in a sense, it is this Ravenhill who is to the fore in Product: World Remix, his mordant hour-long monologue satirising the movie industry (the first of these two short…
The main link between these two short monologues, which can be seen separately, is the relative fame of their writers, Mark Ravenhill and Stewart Lee, and the novelty in seeing them ‘act’ – I use inverted commas because, in the event, only one them even gives that a proper go. In ‘Product: World Remix’, Ravenhill…
What could possibly link Mark Ravenhill, the Damien Hirst of the theatre world, and Stewart Lee, the creator of the puzzlingly controversial Jerry Springer – the Opera? Presumably what appears to be a bloody-minded ability to inspire controversy and then thumb their nose at it? So stick two monologues together which treat Islam and Christianity…