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Sarah Kane plays

"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. Writing is an expression of that"
(Sara Kane, interview with Clare Bayley, 23 January 1995, The Independent)

 

Sarah Kane wrote five plays and one television script.
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1995 Blasted
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Blasted shook London´s theatre world with critics unable to handle its violence and energy ("a disgusting piece of filth").


1996 Phaedra´s Love
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Kane adapts and directs the classical story Phaedra by Seneca.


1997 Skin
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A ten minute television script written by Kane. A skinhead, Billy, comes in contact with a black girl. One of them is a victim.


1998 Cleansed
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Kane says "almost every line in Cleansed has more than one meaning... I wanted to stretch the theatrical language".


1998 Crave
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Kane says "I wanted to find out how good a poet I could be while still writing something dramatic".


2000 4.48 Psychosis
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4.48 is the time most suicides take place. A haunting play, performed after Kane´s death.

 

Kane believed passionately that if it was possible to imagine something it was possible to represent it
(David Greig from the Introduction to the Collected Plays, 2001)

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