SARAH KANE (1971 - 1999)
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Sarah Kane
4:48 Psvchosis |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 2000 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: What happens to a person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality and different forms of imagination completely disappear | ||||
Blasted |
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1996 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted opened. It became the cuase celebre of the theatrical year, making front-page headlines and outraging critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war | ||||
Cleansed |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1998 | |||
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| Genre: | Violent fable | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: In an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables, a group of inmates try to save themselves through love | ||||
Crave |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
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| 1st Published: | 1998 | |||
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Synopsis: 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 | ||||
Phaedra's Love |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | 1998 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Tragedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
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Synopsis: radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus | ||||