Insight into Sarah Kane's Powerful Works
Sarah Kane, a talented playwright and screenwriter, left a lasting impact on the theater world with her provocative and intense works. From "Blasted" to "Crave," Kane's plays delve into dark themes and challenge societal norms. Her artistry and unique storytelling continue to captivate audiences and spark important conversations about violence, relationships, and human nature.
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Sarah Kane Researched by Paige Jewell
Born on the 3rdof February, 1971, and committed suicide on the 20th of February, 1999. 17 days after her 28thbirthday. Throughout her childhood, she was a devout Christian, until she reached adolescence where she rejected her parents imposed religious teachings. She studied her BA in Drama at Bristol University, before completing her MA in play- writing at Birmingham University under the tuition of David Edgar, a renowned playwright and writer. She wrote five plays, and a short-film script called Skin . Her plays, in order, are: Blasted , Phaedra s Love , Cleansed , Crave , and finally, 4:48 Psychosis .
Skin An eleven minute short-film, that was written as a screenplay by Kane in 1995, it was released at in September in the same year of its production. Starring Ewen Bremner, and Marcia Rose, and directed by Vincent O Connell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZjplLullc
Blasted Written by Kane and performed at The Royal Court in 1995. Based on her response to the war and extreme violence and genocide that occurred throughout the Bosnian war. Attacked by critics for it s controversial issues and graphic depictions and stage actions of the extreme violence that took place.
Phaedras Love Written and performed at London s Gate Theatre in 1996. Loosely based on Seneca The Younger s Phaedra - Seneca was a Roman philosopher, best known for his play Medea . Focuses more on Hippolytus, Phaedra s step-son and love interest, whereas the original centred around Phaedra herself.
Cleansed First performance took place in 1998 at The Royal Court. Directed by James MacDonald. It became infamous for its boundary-breaking stage directions, which are written in such a way that they have been interpreted in a unique way by each director who takes lead on the play: e.g. a sunflower pushes through the floor and grows above their heads
Crave First performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburg. Directed by Vicky Featherstone, Kane originally wrote this under the pseudonym Marie Kelvedon , in order to avoid the stigma of her notoriety for depicting explicit violence on stage, since Crave was a drastic change in style to the stylised, organised, highly specific style of playwriting her first few plays displayed. Each character is only identified by a single letter of the alphabet.
4:48 Psychosis 4:48 Psychosis was her only play to be published post-humously, and is supposedly named after the time at which Kane often awoke in the morning during her treatment at a hospital for her mental health issues. Directed by James MacDonald, first performed at The Royal Court in autumn 2000, almost a year and a half after Kane s passing. Like with Crave , there s no explicit stage directions, and this time there is no specified character, and no indication of how many people are supposed to perform the play.
What others have said about Sarah Kane: Mark Ravenhill wrote an obituary for The Independent on the 23rdof February 1999, and reading through it, these are the quotes that struck me the most: the austere beauty of Kane s work was a shock to the system Quoting Kane indirectly: if you are saying you can t represent something, you are saying you can t talk about it, you are denying its existence Quoting Kane indirectly about performing instead of the lead actor during Cleansed: it s not like being in your own play, because that play was written by someone who had hope
What others have said about Sarah Kane: Daniel Evans wrote an article for The Independent in January 2015, on working closely with Kane during the last few years of her life: Sarah s acting style is unadorned and raw On Kane s performing in stead of the lead actor in Cleansed: she was fearless and connected Aleks Sierz wrote for In-Yer-Face Theatre: precocious but self-destructive young talent whose death changed the way we look at her work
Bibliography http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/sarah-kane-why- the-iconic-playwright-who-committed-suicide-is-as-controversial-as-ever-10003985.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane#4.48_Psychosis http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sarah-kane-1072624.html http://www.inyerfacetheatre.com/archive7.html http://www.danrebellato.co.uk/sarah-kane-documentary/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ZjplLullc https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414737.Crave http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-sarah-kane-1072624.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/sarah-kane-why- the-iconic-playwright-who-committed-suicide-is-as-controversial-as-ever-10003985.html
