Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis (Hardcover)

"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" - 4.48 Psychosis How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis' inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in which it misses the point. Kane's final play is much more than a bizarre farewell to mortality. It's a work best understood by approaching it first and foremost as theatre - as a singular component in a theatrical assemblage of bodies, voices, light and energy. The play finds an unexpectedly close fit in the established traditions of modern drama and the practices of postdramatic theatre. Glenn D'Cruz explores this theatrical angle through a number of exemplary professional and student productions with a focus on the staging of the play by the Belarus Free Theatre (2005) and Melbourne's Red Stitch Theatre (2007).

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Fourth Wall
Release date:	September 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Glenn D'Cruz
Dimensions:	172 x 119mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	90
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-37156-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-37156-4
Barcode:	9781138371569

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