Very interesting Jamie, don't get me started on journalists or the discussion group's built-in censor will go into meltdown! I always saw 4.48 as a piece of cathartic writing, just like all Sarah's work. As with Crave, she used the most beautiful poetry, laced with black humour and genuine heartache, to express her intense emotions of despair and longing for love; also this time she needed to exorcise the demons of her clinical depression. We'll never know when her mind was fully made up, but I think she was still slipping in and out of suicidal thoughts right up to the 17 Feb pill attempt - only then had she reached the point of no return. So no, it wasn't a goodbye/suicide note, just another (brilliant) Sarah Kane play.
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Archive 4-3-2001
