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)
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Sarah Kane wrote
five plays and one television script. Blasted shook London´s theatre world with critics unable to handle its violence and energy ("a disgusting piece of filth"). Kane adapts and directs the classical story Phaedra by Seneca. A ten minute television script written by Kane. A skinhead, Billy, comes in contact with a black girl. One of them is a victim. Kane says "almost every line in Cleansed has more than one meaning... I wanted to stretch the theatrical language". Kane says "I wanted to find out how good a poet I could be while still writing something dramatic". 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 |
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