An epic cycle of one act plays about various conflicts’ influence on the modern human being. Every play is named after big films or novels and asks the question: is the greater recognition even possible in our increasingly self-sufficient lives? The material premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006 titled “Ravenhill For Breakfast”, where the author every morning introduced new material to a loyal audience at the Traverse Theatre. It is a collage of very different fragments which can be performed independently, in random order and at various locations. You do not have to use all the material, you can pick the one you like best or the one you find most relevant. In the preface, Ravenhill writes the following: ”[…] So, in exploring our contemporary urge to bring our own values and definitions of freedom and democracy to the whole planet, I’ve chosen to suggest a big picture through little fragments. I’ve named each of the fragments after an existing epic. […] Hopefully different readers, theatres and audiences will experiment with different combinations and so different experiences will emerge. I think this reflects of the age we live in, age in which we yearn for a grand narrative even as we suspect it is dead.”
