Pool

by Mark Ravenhill

A famous artist invites her old friends to her luxurious new home. For one night only, the group is back together. But celebrations come to an abrupt end when the host suffers an horrific accident. As the victim lies in a coma, an almost unthinkable plan starts to take shape: could her suffering be their next work of art? Pool (No Water) is a visceral and shocking new play about the fragility of friendship and the jealousy and resentment inspired by success.

Genres: Plays, Theatre

34 pages, Paperback

First published June 6, 2019

About the author

Mark Ravenhill (born 7 June 1966) is an English playwright, actor and journalist.

His plays include Shopping and Fucking (first performed in 1996), Some Explicit Polaroids (1999) and Mother Clap's Molly House (2001). He made his acting debut in his monologue Product, at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He often writes for the arts section of The Guardian. He is Associate Director of London's Little Opera House at The King's Head Theatre.

Reviews

[Trinity · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[calima · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe one of my favourite titles of a play

[Emily Ollier · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually weirdly love this play. The plot (OMG) so juicy and tense…..like how do you even come up with that crazy dynamic? Between a successful friend and the others she left behind. Thought it was very interesting how there was no assigned lines to characters and how the voice could’ve represented a single person or group of people. Reminds me of Alexander Hamilton from the perspective of the antagonist. And when she jumped into the empty pool 😳 sent shivers down my spine….that is like something from my nightmares. Than her friends trying to profit from her downfall BUT the only reason she became popular was due to her art pieces on one of their friends (Sally) who had cancer? And yet her living through her accident symbolising her strength and paralleling to Sally to present her superiority above the people that were once on her level; CRAZY. And than we finally got her perspective and narrative voice, after all this description she spoke her truth. This is why I love reading plays 🫶🏻

[Anastasia · Rating 5 out of 5]

amazing, spectacular, I want to quote the entire book on here, it's so! good!

pool (no water) ->
money, wealth, fame (no friends) ->
material, object (no essence) ->
she (no thoughts, feelings)

[Cla :) · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was fascinating and an absorbing read

[cooper]

what the

[Rose26 · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredible insight into human psyche.