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Kane: Complete Plays
Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin | Sarah Kane, David Greig
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This volume contains the complete collection of Sarah Kane's plays, including "Blasted"; "Phaedra's Love"; "Cleansed"; "Crave"; "4.48 Psychosis"; and "Skin".
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“Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.”

Remembering Sarah Kane today on her birthday.

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Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin | Sarah Kane, David Greig
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According to the very informative, & thoughtful, introduction by David Greig when Sarah Kane's penultimate play “Crave“ premiered it did so under an alias due to the controversy that had followed her since her debut work “Blasted.“ As Greig writes of the critically misunderstood Blasted, “No authorial voice is leading us to safety“ & later he says of the audience reaction, “Blasted placed Kane on the news pages of tabloids as well as the arts

vivastory pages of broadsheets. While other playwrights might have relished the sort of impact her play created, for Kane it was difficult & depressing.“ Kane's work could be classified under the broad, & nebulous, term of non-naturalist drama. Inspired by Brecht & Beckett, yet equally inspired by rhythms from religious texts & Shakespeare. One of my favorite works in the vol. Phaedra's Love is Kane's take on the Phaedra myth (more along the lines of (edited) 3y
vivastory Seneca's Phaedra than Euripides' Hippolytus). My other favorite is the haunting 4:48 Psychosis, first performed after Kane's suicide at the age of 28. This is a difficult work to classify as an autobiographical reading of it is tempting, almost unavoidable. Yet in the same way as it feels too limiting to read Plath & Sexton's work as merely circumstantial & not ultimately consciously crafted works of art, so it is with her final piece. I have not 3y
vivastory seen a Kane work performed before, however I have noticed that there are several available online. I think that watching them will add another dimension to her work. As Greig notes, “Every one of her plays asks the director to make radical staging decisions...In a Kane play the author makes demands but she does not provide solutions.“ & further, “Her stage imagery poses no problems for theatre per se, only for a theatre tied to journalistic 3y
vivastory naturalism. Nothing in a Kane play is any more bizarre than Shakespeare's direction at the end of A Winter's Tale, 'The statue comes to life.'“
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