By Mark Ravenhill

National Institute of Dramatic Art, Actor’s Studio 2019

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is a cycle of short plays examining the personal and political effect of war on modern life. Each play is named after an existing classical work and all seek to investigate the depth of individual pain against a larger landscape of conflict. Ravenhill examines the West’s urge to export its brand of “freedom and democracy;” while at home, “we live in gated communities” and “withdraw into more and more fearfully isolated groups.” (Ravenhill, “My Near Death Period”).

The structure of Shoot/Get Treasure/ Repeat is both epic and concise; Ravenhill unearths the intimate and personal, but always within a larger political structure.

“I didn’t want this to have a grand narrative with linking plot and characters. I wanted this global theme to be glimpsed through… fragments, individual moments that could be watched singly but that would resonate and grow the more fragments each audience member saw. I felt this would be an honest reflection of the world we live in. It’s a world in which we are more aware than ever of our global connections… But it’s also a world in which we get so much of our information in shorter bursts: the soundbite, the text scrolling across the screen, the YouTube clip” (“My Near Death Period”)

Director Shane Anthony

Producer Gillian Lemon

Production Manager Desmond Hoo

Set Design Lucy McCullough

Lighting Design Richard Whitehouse

Stage Management Lucia Haddad