The universal character of Shopping and Fucking is manifested on the sociological and political level. The director reveals the most shameful qualities of the modern world, both in social and personal life everything is for sale, even a moral identity becomes a market commodity. The protagonists are young people inclined to sell their only wealth, their youth and they do it in order to survive. Ravenhill’s play is cruel, but at the same time extremely human. It is human as it provokes the audience to evaluate immoral and condemnable acts by going back to their origins.
Marius von Mayenburg.