Hello ^^
I began, one year ago, a work about Sarah Kane & 4.48 Psychosis. From February to September 2009, I did the reading of the play a lot of time, I've search idea, I searched sources. Then, from September to now, I did research, I did an adaptation of the play, I've reflect and search about it.
Yesterday, I presented my version of the play as a student work, an anglophone play in a francophone school. And in two days, I'm giving back my "work", which is a view on my process into this project.
The play was good. But what is the best in it, is to have the original text in front of you and then seeing what is happening on stage, how the things has been but on the stage. How many character, how is the stage, who say which line and why...
I found it was a magical thing to work on this play of Sarah Kane. It opens a thousand doors, it can be done a thousand different way, even more, and it has no limits in anything. These are words, and the rest is in the hand of the ones who stage it.
Here I'm sending two version of the play I've found interesting while doing my word...
first, a Canadian representation of the play, which is really interesting :
theater in actuand then, another one, really interesting, with something like 15 actors...
the 4.48 experienceI really loved my experience of working on Sarah Kane and on this play. It was, to me, a real contact with the universe of theater, more than reading or seeing a play, and more than doing drama courses. This play is... universal. It can be done without any references of time and place, it touches the spectators, it cannot let them without reaction.
I had a little scholar public. But it was magical.
From the beginning up to this point where I'm giving the sumerize and reflexion of my work, I really think that my vision of this play is different, more complex, that it got new senses.
I was wondering how you were seeing it, what was your vision of the play, how you were seeing this strange text...
just to discuss a bit and discover other view over 4.48 psychosis.