Tag: Some Explicit Polaroids

Some Explicit Polaroids, written by Mark Ravenhill and directed for Tower Theatre by Nick Edwards, was first performed in 1999. The play follows Nick, a political activist released from prison after 15 years, returning to a Britain that has changed considerably in his absence. He encounters Helen, his former partner, and a younger generation of Nadia, Tim and Victor, whose lives are shaped by sex, drugs, consumerism, identity and the search for belonging. Across these encounters, Ravenhill examines connection, disconnection and the changing social and political landscape of Britain at the turn of the century. There is something fascinating about encountering a play written at the end of the 1990s and seeing how its questions around identity, desire, consumerism and connection resonate t...