First Performance 08/04/2008
Closing 19/04/2008

A collection of short pieces by Mark Ravenhill, Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat started life as Ravenhill Fro Breakfast, the playwright's 2007 Edinburgh Festival offering. A cycle of 16 short plays, it is performed around London this spring.

8-12 April 18:00 – The Mother
Haley is visited by two soldiers who are going to break the news of her son's death in battle.
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark and Clare Lizzimore
Cast: Rachael Chisholm, John Dagleish, Lesley Manville

8-12 April 21:30 – Birth Of A Nation
A group of actors come to work with the local people after a foreign power has withdrawn.
Director Ramin Gray
Cast: Megan Dodds, Monica Dolan, Toby Jones, Pearce Quigley

15-19 April – Double Bill (20:45, mat Thu 11:00)
Fear And Misery
An anxious couple plans their future while listening to the baby alarm.
Cast: Joseph Millson, Lewis Lempereur-Palmer, Joanna Riding

War And Peace
Alex, a seven-year-old child, is visited in his bedroom by a headless soldier.
Director Dominic Cooke
Cast: Burn Gorman, Lewis Lempereur-Palmer

The pieces are performed in different spaces around the Royal Court.

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