Mark Ravenhill. Photo: Tristram Kenton

British dramatist Mark Ravenhill, whose most recent work, an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Nation, ran at London’s National Theatre earlier this year, will sit down for a tete-a-tete with Marvin Carlson during A Conversation with Mark Ravenhill at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center, on Monday 15 November at 6.30pm. Perhaps best known for Shopping and Fucking and other plays that stretched the boundaries of adult themes that could be presented on stage, he has continued to prolifically produce plays that range across a wide landscape of style and content for a variety of audiences — although Shopping and Fucking challenged even adult audiences (as it continues to challenge marketing and advertising departments of the theatres that continue to produce it), Nation appealed to children and their parents alike. In English Drama Since 1940, David Ian Rabey describes his work as “containing elements of the comedy of manners, but [extending] into darker social satire which ambivalently exposes contemporary reflexes into stylish heartlessness.” A selection of Ravenhill’s plays can be found here.

The Segal Center conversation with Ravenhill, like all Segal Center events, is free. More at the Web page for the event here.