Food for thought: Robin- Chrissie

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David Lynch once said that a film should be like a peice of art where everyone has there own interpritation and everyone of those is right. I think the same can definatly be said of the work of Sarah Kane.

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Well, I think Sarah Kane was a master in connecting seemingly incongruous things together, like love and concentration camps, pop songs and high literature ...

This connections cause the structure, and also the mysterious lines of sense in her work. And it's very interesting, to detect some of this 'lines' and then to connect them again with the play. That's the source of the various interpretations her play allows.

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Very interesting! She certainly travelled the world and saw a lot of different plays, so there's every chance she saw a passion play and was influenced by it.

That said, Robin killing himself when he realises the length of his sentence was inspired by a prisoner on ROBBEN Island who did the same - so his name could have come from that?

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If we consider that Sarah Kane has studied drama and for this reason must have known the theatre history very well and also that she grew up in a very christian family, can there be a connection between Cleansed and medieval plays?

Robin is a kind of fool and servant of the monger (--> Tinker: Dealer), who claims himself a quack (--> T.: Doctor) in the Easter plays. The monger sells ointment to the three maries, who want to 'revitalize' Jesus with it.

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