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4.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of
1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of
depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed
suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters
are named, and even their number is unspecified. It could be a
journey through one person's mind, or an interview between a doctor
and his patient.
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave
charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of
love, loss and desire "A hugely unnerving theatrical experience,
shot through with the language of the Bible and a genuinely poetic
richness" (Time Out) "A dramatic poem in the late-Beckett style,
sometimes a chamber quartet for lost voices" (The Times) Produced
by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker),
Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh
Festival. It received its English premiere at the Royal Court
Theatre in September 1998.
With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the
Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of
the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British
play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria 'One of
the most brilliantly original and entertaining new plays I have
seen in years' (The Sunday Times) Blasted 'Her dialogue is both
sparse and stunning. They will call her mad, but then they said
that about Strindberg' (Mail on Sunday) Shopping and F***ing 'A
real coup de theatre' (Evening Standard) The Beauty Queen of
Leenane 'The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young
dramatist ...a born storyteller' (New York Times)The result is a
collection of "must reads" that's excellent value for students and
theatre fans alike.
"Blasted" is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in
1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making
front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her
premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel
room and the hellish devastation of civil war was simply an attempt
to shock audiences. The questions raised in this play about
violence are at the heart of Kane's writing.
I know you want to punish me, trying to make me live. In 1995 Sarah
Kane's first full-length play Blasted sent shockwaves throughout
the theatrical world. Making front-page headlines, the play
outraged critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence
in civil war. However, from being roundly condemned by the critics
the play is now considered a seminal work of European theatre and
has defined an entire era of stage writing. In an expensive hotel
room in Leeds, Ian, a middle-aged tabloid journalist, sits with his
teenage lover Cate who he attempts to seduce and eventually rapes.
As reality dissipates, the room becomes embroiled in civil war as a
soldier invades the space and the play descends into apocalyptic
scenes of brutality. Blasted's canonical status reflects the raw
beauty and terror of Kane's writing. Probing the brutality people
inflict upon one another, the suffering and violation, the play
also looks at the role of love and the redemption it offers.
Unafraid to delve into darkness, this is a provocative, fragmenting
piece full of significance and power. Blasted premiered at the
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in January 1995. Methuen Drama's
iconic Modern Plays series began in 1959 with the publication of
Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey and has grown over six decades
to now include more than 1000 plays by some of the best writers
from around the world. This new special edition hardback of Blasted
was published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays
in 2019, chosen by a public vote and features a brand new foreword
by Mel Kenyon.
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Blasted (Paperback)
Sarah Kane; Edited by Ken Urban
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This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play "Blasted"
features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide
for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a
scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic,
social and political context, and on the themes, characters,
language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested
reading, questions for further study and a review of performance
history.
In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play "Blasted" sent
shockwaves throughout the theatrical world. Making front-page
headlines, the play outraged critics with its depiction of rape,
torture and violence in civil war. At its debut "Blasted" was
roundly condemned by theatre critics like the Daily Mail who
decried it as a "disgusting feast of filth." Today, however, this
play is considered a seminal work of European theatre and has
defined an era of stage writing.
"Blasted'"s canonical status reflects the raw beauty and terror
of Kane's writing. Probing the brutality people inflict upon one
another, the suffering and violation, the play also looks at the
role of love and the redemption it offers. Unafraid to delve into
darkness, this is a provocative, fragmenting piece full of
significance and power.
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted
premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A
provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes
the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with
sexuality, social ostracism and the effects of drugs. Cleansed
premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in spring 1998.Kane's first
play Blasted caused major controversy, furore and acclaim amongst
critics and throughout the theatre world
When Blasted was first produced at the Royal Court in 1995 it was
hailed jointly as a masterpiece and a 'disgusting piece of filth'
(Daily Mail). Subsequently that play, and the others that followed,
have been produced all over the world. This anthology includes
Kane's never-before-published Channel 4 screenplay, Skin."Kane
wrote simply and starkly about the world she saw around her...a
mature and vividly theatrical response to the pain of living."
Guardian
"4.48 Psychosis" sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's
focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has
moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple,
into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the
mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the
playwright took her own life at age 28. On the page, the piece
looks like a poem. No characters are named, and even their number
is unspecified. It could be a journey through one person's mind, or
an interview between a doctor and his patient.
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