СЕКСУАЛНОСТ И ИДЕОЛОГИЈА КОНЗУМЕРИЗМА У ДРАМИ МАРКА РЕЈВНХИЛА MOTHER CLAP‘S MOLLY HOUSE
Sexuality and the ideology of consumerism in Mark Ravenhill`s play „Mother Clap’s Molly House“

Summary/Abstract: The theatrical poetics of Mark Ravenhill, one of the most staged authors of contemporary British „in-yer-face“ theatre, represents an unusual blend of humor, grotesque, the absurd, occasional violence, and specific thematic fields problematizing the norms of modern society through rich dramatic metaphors. Aiming to provoke intense emotions in the audience, Ravenhill’s „experiential theatre“ works on deconstructing the ideologies internalized within the deepest inner being of the human, by using powerful dramatic-poetic metaphors characteristic of „in-yer-face“ theatre. In relation to this, the paper aims to analyze the complex relationship between sexuality and consumerism in the 21st century global society, which Ravenhill deals with in his play „Mother Clap’s Molly House“ by displaying it on a historical axis connecting the two chronotopes in which two separate groups of characters act in parallel: the world of London in the 1720s, and that of London at the birth of the 21st century. Using the events in the 18th century as the metaphorical stem of one specific aspect of consumerist ideology pertaining to sexuality (more precisely in this context: male homosexuality), the author creates parallels placing the two stories within а temporal continuum representing the development of consumerism – a shapeshifting ideology which perfidiously persists by adapting to the historical contexts, continuing to exploit the marginalized subjects. With the theoretical basis leaning mostly on Foucault, Virilio, Judith Butler, Terry Eagleton, this paper, therefore, analyzes the ways in which Ravenhill manages to deepen the too often neglected issue of sexuality controlled by the mechanisms of consumerist ideology, adding to it a historical dimension and providing fertile ground for reinterpretation.

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