Here is what Mark Ravenhill wrote on Edward Bond and Sarah Kane for the programme notes for Edward Bond's The Sea at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.

"...The late Sarah Kane was certainly influenced by his work.`You can learn anything you need to know about playwriting´ she once told me, with a hint of witty overstatement, ´by studying Saved.´ When Kane´s play Blasted arrived at the Royal Court in 1995, causing as much a storm as Saved had done thirty years before, it was obvious that the brutalised language of the characters, the Goyaesque images of the soldier and the baby, the sly wit and searing anger were definitely Kane's own- but that she was aware of, and drawing on the inspiration of Bond's plays, right through from Saved to his War Plays of the mid1980s. But it was also the way that Kane's fierce moral vision had found shape in taught theatrical form made that her (sic) the successor to Bond..."

Iain