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Why do you like/dislike Sarah Kane's work?

• striking, compassionate, moving and funny believe it or not!
• tackling the unmentionable
• I'd like to see how you handle the rats in Cleansed
• why is Blasted set in Bosnia and not Northern Ireland?
• it's a beautiful expression of everything important
• it gives me a mirror on society today (Cleansed)
• Sarah was a brilliantly original and talented writer, used her work as catharsis on things that deeply affected her emotionally, and sang with compassion for the desperate, the lonely and the abused. Many thanks for setting up this excellent web site, at last a place for SK enthusiasts to meet and discuss!
• it is the most pure, brutal yet clear realisation of love....some of it hurts to read - yet you can't put it down - her unbelievable use of poetry - she says the unsayable - you know the things that are on the tip of your tongue that you just can't say....
• because it is provocative, unusual and not "politically correct"
• the impossibility of staging Phaedra with true justice

• because it is not banal and trivial, unlike these questions. I can't help feeling "What is your favourite Sarah Kane scene" is a very trivial question. Could this site be a little less colourful?
• I find the plays irritating, difficult, immediate. You can smell the human flesh and the mind coming out of them
• she is really pure. I think she writes in a very direct way that makes you think about how many compromises we have to stipulate with life
• shocking, touching, relevant, and above all very dramatically potent
• the power of her imagery. Her brutal honesty
• I don't dislike Sarah Kane at all. Was introduced to her work 2 years ago, and am still just as excited now.... Great site! Thank you
• "Like" isn't a good word. It grabs me and yells at me and cuts through the bullshit and the whitewash. What she showed was that THE SO-CALLED SANE ARE CRAZY, AND THE SO-CALLED NORMAL ARE SICK. Also she was very good at stating the truth, even when sadly (as in 4:48's "nothing will interfere with your work like suicide") she failed to rise to that truth herself. I HATE Sylvia Plath. I HATE the cults of Plath, Woolf, and other writers who were women who committed suicide. Discover her plays. React to them. But what is all this b----shit she's only been "recognised," cultified, deified after her suicide--the killing becomes the myth. Let's not do that, OK? It teaches still-living writers toxic lessons
• it makes the modern condition visible like no other work I have encountered
• it depicts a profoundly deep human longing that directly relates to life as we know it today with tremendous poetic style and wonderful ironic humour
• she displays words at random, has no cohesion, sense of purpose. Just incohesive linkage of words, contradictions and a sense of nothing but blandness. Just a tragic excuse for people to spend hour after hour justifying, interrupting and trying to find the connotative meaning of work that is nothing more than infantry scribblings

• bringing difficult themes and issues from the far distance into our back yard
• I love her work. It spills over with passion, anger and love. I feel that love is the most important emotion in all of her plays, it condemns people, it changes characters, it provokes them and it kills them. Her plays are so intense, and seem to offer a truth about the world that perhaps we are afraid to face, and perhaps this is the reason for the critics reaction to, for example, Blasted? Sarah's death was unnecessary. She was so talented, so fresh and so raw. Theatre has lost what was an utterly brilliant playwright, and that will never be replaced
• very retorting and hard to stand. You can feel the characters suffering in your own flesh
• reminds me what a fragile blood pump the heart is
• I really enjoy all of Sarah Kane's works. She doesn't base her play's on ideologies or take on a political theme which I find very refreshing. Her work can reflect on real life issues which she used in a unique way. Well done Sarah I think that you are amazing as a theatre student my self I have to say you are my idol
• 'real', funny, affecting, brutal, beautiful, painful, cathartic...
• I like her economy of language, and the sense of deeply felt pain
• there is no compromise
• I like the sensitivity to people's suffering and the humour, also the tentative hope at the end of Blasted. Eventually, in her subsequent work, her morbidity became too much - there is more to being an artist than continually drawing black circles. There is plenty of Love and Light in the World
• I am fascinated by her work because she writes like no one else. Her work symbolizes courage and honesty and a great empathy with the weak and the abused

• I have never had a reading experience similar to Crave. When I read it for the first time I had no clue what it was actually about, so I read it another six times finding new aspects every time. And I am sure that there is still so much to explore. And so far, I have only read 4.48 Psychosis once. I adore Sarah Kane for her multi-layered characters
• When I saw one of her plays (it was Blasted) the first time I felt dazzled and fascinated by the astonishing power in that play. Thomas Ostermaier, a German director said once "rape is the topic of the nineties" and Sarah Kane was it's best protagonist
• she is undeniably interesting
• it's very poetic, very lyrical and makes an impact emotionally on a very deep level
• she is intelligent and true
• Kane was perhaps the only writer who never wrote a 'bums on seats' play. Good site
• I think Sarah Kane is a sort of messiah on stage. Not only she makes us see life as it is, but she frees on the stage the mechanics which govern our most vile, cruel, but unconscious everyday attitude. When she realized the world has been blinded, she took the extreme decision, just like Jesus on the cross. Reinterpreting on the human side some faith dogmas she wanted to bring mankind back to humanity. She is a work of art, and will ever be. Goryjoe. I'm just blaming myself of not discovering this website before
• utterly original and sadly irreplaceable. It will take another two generations of writing before anything comes close again
• I especially like the style in which 4:48 psychosis is written and learnt a lot from the play
• first time after about ten years I was shocked and completely overthrown by something on stage

• Hey! I'm a student in the University of the Philippines, taking up Theatre Arts. We're doing CRAVE this August 2001 and...WOW. Her work is unspeakable!!! I just hope we do justice to it...
• because although her work is excruciatingly painful to read and watch, it is also beautiful and truthful at the same time
• I like it because it tells the truth about what we are REALLY thinking. Pinter wrote characters who were really thinking darker things, but they never talked about these darker things - it was all in the subtext. Kane has taken this further. It is as if she is saying, "If you're not getting the subtext, let me make it clearer for you!" That is not to say her text is in anyway 1 or 2 dimensional - far from it
• her work is unique, censorious, poetic, relevant
• thank god for the truth of her plays, something that is never written about or put on the stage
• I like her because she's blatantly honest about the shameful reality that we humans are afraid to admit. Since I'm just a freshman student, I was really shocked about how inhibited were her ideas but I gradually realized the critical value of pain, violence, hatred, longing and anguish in the play because it seemed to be the best bridge in portraying a deep need for love, happiness, and freedom
• I love her ability to see past society's veneer to what's really going on. kewl site
• in a world that is cold and heartless, populated by the likes of Mark Ravenhill (all stone cold, stilted, glamorizations of the human race), where we fill our minds with sounds and images of love from pop songs and rom-com's, photography and pornography, in a desperate attempt to hide from the reality of love in a society that condemns such extremes of emotion, Sarah Kane admirably backed up the assumption that 'love changes everything' and in doing so unlocked the key to our current human condition. She did so with such stark honesty that it is almost too unbearable to read as it strikes at the core of your being with every startling image. I defy anyone to not find a line of Sarah Kane's work that touches them in the purest and most shattering of ways
• the most brutal poetic honest real inspired writing I have ever read
• she wrote honestly directly from her heart

• it reminds me of Bruce Nauman a bit. When humanity is portrayed in this quite cold style, it's often the time you feel the most secure
• sometimes.... it' s too much
• I love everything she has done. Period
• I've only read 4.48, but the poetry in it reminds me of mine. Those images are so real
• painful, katharctical, poetic
• it's funny, multidimensional and really expontaneous
• her honesty
• I love the dark qualities that reflect internal strife
• that not everyone understands it and values it as theatrical gifts of beauty. Thank you for this site. Kane was a writer par excellence and her work is extraordinary
• she was a ferocious theatre artist. Uncompromising and honest. Her bravery in her work is astounding

• I think Sarah Kane would hate this website. It represents everything she was against in her writing: the Oprahfication of true, searing emotion and insight. Who is this site really serving?
• I love the way Kane has never bent to what society wants to see. She has made theatre come alive again through the fact that she was a true philosopher and poet, possibly the first since the expressionists to understand the full scope of human emotion, and point out its torture. I am a high school student, who was to direct 4.48 Psychosis in a Brisbane Private school. It was stopped. People need to hear these words, need to see these images. To show these plays is important, but who in this commercial world will force people to realise what they already know, but ignore?
• I love the fact that she has compassion for even the most brutal of her characters
• none they all have value. If I didn't like them I wouldn't be here. Release Kane's monologues
• Sarah Kane's drama is postmodern and minimalist
• her work is filled with glorious brutality and entirely beautiful poeticism
• she's uncompensated shock. She's the bleeding out. She's lead ballast and weightlessness. I've never read anything else so true
• because her theatre makes you experience not think. It makes you cry without knowing why and isn't that what life is all about in the end
• she just found the perfect words to describe love and the way it makes you feel
• I like the rawness of Kane's texts. After reading any of her work other plays seem like they're trying to hard. She doesn't seem to hide behind wit or anything else for that matter the way so many writers do. Although this makes her work transparent to a certain degree, at the same time her plays wouldn't have the pace, energy, and dare I say it honesty that she produces.  The only thing I don't like are the rats in Cleansed. How oh how do we stage it or sign it Sarah? And do we sign the seasonal changes in the rain for Blasted? Maybe Sarah was working on a plane we have yet to understand, or maybe another draft could have been written. All things said I do feel her work is the best I've seen. It's so rich with images and the text has the power to rip the heart in two. The only other writers these days I'm even capable of reading are Labute, Barker, Beckett, and sometimes Mamet. Oh God, send us another woman

• not enough of it
• I like Sarah Kane's works because she writes the truth life
• I love Sarah's honesty and her ability to challenge with her work - something completely lacking in most contemporary theatre
• discusses complex emotions/issues without being sentimental and without offering solutions to the insoluble - encourages reader to think and to resist the temptation to judge others/take responsibility for others.  An extremely informative and interesting website.  Thank you
• because it's real!
• strength, pain, formal experimentation
• I like most of it
• I've got to say I'm completely unaffected by the Sarah Kane fan club and only came across her play last night at the citizens in Glasgow - Pinter - that's all I can see. Pinter said he was investigating the weasel under the cocktail cabinet - Kane seems like she has let loose a lion the in front room- but what does it mean - to sell be nastier? -or am I a philistine- is Blasted about war is bad- seems to be
• it takes what looks like a normal every day human into a different light
• I like her rarity her violence her truth her mystery her strangeness

• the brutal honesty and amazing writing.  I like the fact that she wrote without caring terribly about the limitations of theatre.  I would like more photos
• I love the fact she never compromised, never said: "No I can't write that, what'll people say? How will it be staged?" That's a director's problem. She was a writer. And boy, could she write
• it is painful but it's true
• it's all weird
• Kane's work is powerful and challenging and shows real insight into the human mind
• in so few plays, there are no two alike - a contemporary writer who could actually write and was a bit of a poetess too
• I think Sarah Kane has achieved something that happens only very rarely: She has found a new mode to touch the human soul and to make us feel something. Her theatre may seem cruel, black, desperate, but it is so only because it alludes strongly to human values like love, friendship, faithfulness. Her work is that of a photographer: she takes the negatives and makes us receive the colour pictures.  I am convinced that Sarah Kane has contributed a lot to literature-and she has already given a lot to me and my friends!
• I like Sarah's omnipotent bleakness
• her language is very powerful and moving especially in 4.48 Psychosis. Once you've read a Kane play you cant forget it. 4.48 is certainly her best play, but I still have a soft spot for Blasted, and I wish I had seen the production at the Royal Court
• because it also feels pain and pain is your power!
• I like her characters, they are not just black and white. They are very human, my favourites are Cate from Blasted and Rob in Cleansed
• ironic sense of humor
• it is impossible to dislike Kane's work. She has broken the taboo's of modern society and allowed us to realise our neuroses are normal after all!!  People may slag her off saying her work only became recognised after she killed herself but isn't this the case of most artists/ an artist she truly was she had a way with words that is truly magical
• was entirely drawn in and involved. Cried while reading Crave in Waterstones
• first, her pure skill - her facility with language, her understanding of theatrical imagery, and her understanding of theatrical history. But also, her bravery - her willingness to show both the graphic ugliness of how we treat each other and the capacity we have to save ourselves through love. Both of these things are equally brave. She was one of a kind.  Anyone who is in Southern California, or who can get here, MUST see the Rude Guerrilla production of Cleansed. It is superb. And oh yes, this is really a terrific site! Very complete and well-organized. "Oprahfication"? :-)
• it's shit, burn all copies
• I love Sarah's work, because she don't run away from problems, but wants to speak about them. She can write normal things so poetically. Sarah's gods in theatre were Pinter and Bond. My god is Sarah Kane
• because it's shocking and it's true
• Like: the ability to phrase reality in a new way that captures life's honesty the best.  Dislike: The difficulty of the scripts to be performed, oh, wait that's why I love it
• honesty
   
• the language is so strong
• I love her plays for their courage in talking about sex and violence with no stupid barriers. She's the one who had no fear to say the truth- there are no moral barriers as there is no morality, no living God, no hope, no love, which won't destroy you. Her view on the problems of each human being is similar to my other favourite authors- James Joyce, or D.A.F. de Sade.  What's more, her plays are as good as the Shakespeare's. That's why I love Sarah Kane - Hannibal
• I love her courage and her genius- she really was a new Shakespeare
• hmmm...
• its so in yer face, fresh and new. With hidden psychological depth
• she writes things how she sees them and doesn't put a limit on how immoral some scenes are... 'I gassed the jews, I killed the kurds...' 4.48 Psychosis
• because it's strange, it's different than other plays. It is genius.  It'll be good to translate Kane's plays in Polish
• she manifested the existential angst of today
• I do not understand Crave, either in English or in French (translated). How come?
• somewhere in her pure surrealness is a message. Her plays seem bleak and pessimistic, but often contain a surprisingly optimistic message.  How about extended text extracts?
   
• her feelings are similar to mine. I think that I understand her, the reason why she committed suicide. She wouldn't have done it if only she had understood that her pain could be only a moment. She lives in me
• its real. Dead real
• can be real but too real
• too sexually graphic and sadistic a result of spending too much time within gay culture and losing touch with reality
• its full of real emotion
• she shows the other side of the skin, what we wanna hide but appear with volence.   I am from Chile. Here we saw a really good version of Blasted. The theaters were full. Here the people is so connected to the T.V. and to the plastic vision that this gives here, but Blasted have clean so much minds, its amazing the FX  that Sarah produce here.... She really can clean minds, and lives
• I like her work because she is not afraid to write with honesty and great affection, human affection. Kane highlights the dark side of love without feeble sentimentality
• I like her work because its different and all about personal issues, brings the point across kind of like help people, cant really explain
• It challenges so called 'normality' and what is considered as live theatre. She writes truth with brutality yet with poetry too. I admire her honesty and refusal to censor her feelings to avoid controversy. Love it or hate it, her plays stir disturbing emotions in every reader who comes across them. That is a writer
• because she demands something of us, as actors, readers, and audiences, that no one else has dared to in quite the same way as us. She not only presents us with the truth and beauty and ugliness of the world, but challenges us with it
   
• Sarah doesn't write plays with a happy ending, she doesn't try to impress you with big words and all her literary knowledge, she writes what she feels and for me that is true drama. I love her work, its the best I've ever read.  I'm an a level drama student and I'm studying her work, it would be good to have more educational links, facts and figures (boring I know) but it would really help me and students  everywhere. Thanks. Oh and nice one for coming up with this site..its cracker!!
• it's accessibility through freedom of the imagination, and the unchained use of poetry within her works. Also, her use of comedy within tragedy or tragedy within comedy, which gives me goose-bumps and has made me laugh and cry at simultaneously in private. Can't wait to see the Oxford production
• Sarah Kane is inspirational, she changed the way that I read plays, I will no longer compromise and settle for something that does not capture the reality of the dark side or is brave enough to sit in silence for actual minutes and let the bodies and the spatial relationships between them do the talking
• the only writer I have come across who tells it how she honestly sees it regardless of taboos - how refreshing
• she really knew. She really knew what was underneath the skin. I don't think there is much to say but more to think about, to leave our eyes wide open so we can see what is written in the words beneath our flesh
• I love it because it's weird and wacky and in a weird way amazingly true to life
• one word: genius
• its intense
• her work is a cynical yet beautiful look on relationships; it uses imagery that is intricate and extreme to get across the obvious.  Keep it coming!!!
• on and beyond the edge of what anyone else has done
   
• because I'm an actor and I play it (Blasted)
• marvellous Isabelle Huppert in São Paulo, Brasil, enchanting the crowd for 4 days with 4.48 Psychose
• it has no aim, it has no story but in this way, it is the most fathomable piece of work I have ever read (Crave). Sarah has  managed to put into words, how many of us feel from this day to the next.  I am more than sad that we have lost this woman, as I would have loved to have known her, interacted with her, suffered with her. I just hope now that she has found the peace she so craved for
• I love her work, it's raw and inspired. She transgresses social boundaries, making you think, particularly in Phaedra's Love of the hypocrisy of religion. The scene with the priest and Hippolytus is incredible
• it forces us to look at those sides of our personalities that we would rather deny existed
• I studied it for my degree. I liked Blasted because it had a message, but the bit at the end where the baby is eaten is disgusting
• I like her language, the way she expresses her pain, the personalities of her characters. I feel a very strong empathy, and at the same time, I feel warmly comforted.  I want to hear more about the performance of 4.48 Psychosis in France, because my favorite Isabelle Huppert was playing. I doubt it that she will come to Japan with it
• her plays are brilliant in the fact that they are theatrically challenging, they think on a metaphoric level, symbolic acts happen in the plays and when we are given the stage directions they seem impossible! But, the intention can be acted on, we are not given the solutions and so we are given the freedom to make wild and creative decisions
• the fact that it makes sense to me, she talks about people in a way that is so real
• the bestiality because it detracts from the beauty
   
• the shortness of words
• I like her work because she shows me real theatre
• its very poetic and the language is short and touching and when I reread the plays I'm each time again very fascinated.  Your side is interesting especially for me because I'm from Switzerland and there are no sites in German about Sarah Kane like your site
• she was an honest writer. She didn't write forcefully, like some of her contemporaries (Ravenhill), she wrote what came naturally to her and what she felt was the truth
• she is perfect like an ice
• it scares me and pushes me to confront the thing I fear in myself.  Cleansed in Chicago was the best
• its from the heart, its emotive and it speaks to the audience. its not manipulating and it doesn´t put people down its merely there to express her love hate and depression that she is living in
• its so old and truthful, and bares the emotions other playwrights don't dare to touch upon
• I love it because of it's brutal honesty and true "warts and all" view of life. I've been hooked ever since I saw 4:48 Psychosis on a school trip at the Royal Court. I never found anything else that can be so true and so beautiful in it's ugliness (except life, I suppose).  Good site, like the fact the section on books is varied to include influences and works to understand her better. Love the fact that you acknowledge Artaud
• she is honest, and Sarah is great modern tragedy. In years that are coming, she will be more and more recognised like the only honest voice of XX century
   
• I'm starting to work on 4;48 Psychosis in July. I graduated recently from the Conservatoire de Montréal as an actor but I'm also a video artist. All of the group working on the production is French but we've decided to play it in English to respect the original sounds and meanings of the authors thought. I do not work as an actor on the show but as a video artist
• behind her words are the truth about the human condition, she wrote what she knew and didn't pretend to know anything
• she's very clever and I really like the way she writes.  People think that just because she killed herself that her plays are gunna be psychotic. but I think if you read them first before judging them, as I did you will enjoy them  more, forget she killed herself then read them, you'll see them from a different point of view
• I guess it can be a bit graphic but I guess sometimes you have to open up the truth of the matter or at least the  pain/lines/sub text etc from the earlier Phaedra plays to the foreground
• She doesn't sugar-coat anything, she writes with passion, honesty & understanding. She isn't just another one of those writers trying too hard to be 'deep'
• The comments previously submitted to this site demonstrate the malign effect that Sarah Kane's influence will  have over less talented playwrights of the next generation. These writers will neglect the bourgeois values of characterisation, plot, structure etc in preference to telling us about their tortured souls.  Great site! Keep it up!
• I like the courage to tackle the unspeakable and dislike the way it makes me feel uncomfortable to watch it
• I like the truth of almost each sentence
• she pushes and breaks down the boundaries of theatre
• it's where Strindberg left off.  I would suggest Chuck Mee Jr.'s work to those who like Kane. Click on the image for his website
   
• I only saw Cleansed years ago in London but I am reading the rest of the plays. I have a especial interest on Sarah Kane. Please update me on anything to do with her and her work and thank you very much for your great website
• despite the atrocities committed in her plays and the tortured souls she has created, Kane's work remains resolutely optimistic. You come out of the theatre feeling truly cleansed and, crucially, with a greater understanding of yourself. This is what all art strives for but very little achieves. Unfortunately, I believe her death HAS created a Kane-cult in which she has been lumped together with various other poets and playwrights. Inevitable perhaps, but unfair
• emotionally intense.  Good, good site
• images of depravation, pain and loneliness, which are some of the most difficult things to deal with
• it is my ambition to play Cate at some point (Blasted) - something to aspire to
• it speaks to me like a hive-mind, like the multi-facets of ourselves as the "hamster" of thoughts roll through our heads
• I love the way that light is used throughout the play (Blasted)
• ella es perfectamente humana, agobiada por los monstruos de su cabeza y de su corazón, como todos los artistas. Es maravillosa como dramaturga, intensa y honesta
• I love the fact that everybody still talks about her and that people get shocked so easily be here absurdity....
• I think her mind is really interesting,  It doesn't scare me what she wrote it enthrals me. I am currently performing 4.48
   
• I´d like to know when Sarahs plays r performed in London, and lets have a nerdy (not expensive) gathering.  I´d love to act in one of the plays but I'm not a "professional" actress ,just a very passionate one thank you tara
• When I read 4.48 I was literally climbing up the wall (I know it sounds strange) it made something deep inside act in a way I have never felt before. It is a wonderful experience!
• elle ose regarder sous ses pieds
• Sarah Kane as we all know lead a very turbulent life. And she wrote it in her plays so what she writes is from the heart you get the sense that the language within a Sarah Kane play is not behaving itself, this is appealing to me. When you read Sarah Kane's work you get the sense of her spirit in the text of the play
• she was a very powerful dramatist
• she doesn´t lie about our society and all the issues going on around the world
• I like it because it grips all emotion
• they tell us how the world is brutal
• they are lovely and disturbing
• I like it because it inspires me, makes me feel something that not literature, music or whatsoever has made me feel before.  Good homepage
   
• there are no words
• the honesty, and how she wasn't afraid to be raw with the work
• I like it cause it's so intense, true, genius...
• last night I read 4.48 it made me look deep inside myself and question the very essence of my being, what did I find.... a black void...and a voice of reason.  Sarah Kane's work brings to life the complexity of the human condition
• I love hate feel taste smell touch
• because its raw
• Sarah Kane is a legend. I've just finished playing the role of Ian in Blasted. Hard, very challenging and had to break a lot of barriers. All in all though, its a masterpiece!
• she was and is the hopeless light where we find our salvation. I sometimes wish she wasn't right but when I think about that I find another never-ending path in my mind...Forgive me God
• ha avuto coraggio, ha combattuto, ha cercato la Verità
• nothing is as true as Crave
   
• her talent is extraordinary. I would prefer directing Blasted to f*cking madonna, britney, or any of the other pop tarts.   Great site...love the Amazon links
• it's raw and it says all the things I ever wanted to say but couldn't find the words
• Sarah Kane suffered a lot from Depression and in a way that killed her, but her beliefs on Men and the power she portrayed of them I think is not true to life
• because she shows the inexpressible
• I love her fearlessness
• it's my life
• staging rats and sunflowers!
• I love because it is so open and so specific at the same time. One line can mean a hundred different things. And just the language is beautiful. You can't find a cadence like Kane has anywhere else. And I also love theatre that brings up more questions than answers. And that is Kane thru and thru
• I love her raw honesty, honesty through brutality
• I love her innovative way of presenting violence in the theatre, and her depiction of war
   
• deep, and dark. an expression of life through a severely depressed persons eye's, they walk among us yet they feel they don't belong. something most people can relate to but don't have to live with
• Sarah Kane's work is raw emotion, she finds the words that others can't to describe their feelings whether its love, hate or physical/emotional pain. Inspirational work that few can do true justice to
• it's plain honest
• she breaks the boundaries
• the honesty, confrontational nature of the plays. The non-sugarcoated, rose-tinted view of the world, love and relationships
• love it- a take on life, compelling, moving, inspiring and in its darkness offers privacy of unsupervised emotion
• she´s into me
• I like the shock effects of her plays, but I sometimes missed the cohesion in some of the scenes. Or maybe this is intended?  Crave is quite confusing... It seems to me that there is no story at all in its actual sense, but instead rather an impression of the state of mind of four persons
• words cannot describe an artist such as Sarah Kane, such beauty, such pain
• I like Sarah Kane's plays because they are powerful, poetic and they represent herself. Through violence scenes, Sarah can be emotional and so sweet
   
• raw, haunting, hocking, compelling
• Kane has such truth in her plays I think it reaches right into the heart of everyone who reads it - she was a truly talented writer - the world needs to know about her writing
• the fact that it is very precise writing and only reveals its true self once you unravel its surface
• shocking like nothing else
• Sarah kanes work is shocking but also true I love the way she got the idea for Blasted from the war, as many people do watch the news and turn away when something bad is on but she just wanted them to know and understand what was happening
• the dark atmosphere
• I like it because it has amazing passionate emotion but yet is so emotionless
• I love it, it is marvellous
• its different and truthful
• her work is different- shocking, sad, thrilling..and for some people it`s realistic (some people feel the same, unfortunately). each line of her work has so many meanings
   
• the overwhelming power and beauty of her poetry touches me (and indeed I believe everyone). Unlike so many plays the language in all her work has a visceral and felt quality. You experience and witness her work rather than simply being 'shown'. I constantly have goose bumps simply reading her work...let alone rehearsing or seeing it
• I'm getting obsessed with Sarah Kane ..yeah ..scary..
• it's graphic, real and emotions are externalised through the depiction of words
• Kane's work strays from the achingly beautiful to the painfully self-indulgent
• she is unique
• she's honest, unafraid of anything
• I admire Kane's because it has the ability to make even the most shallow or hollow people think about the complexity of human emotion. Her plays are NOT pretty but because of this they are inspiring
• porque toca las emociones.Estoy haciendo un estudio sobre Crave y 4.48 Psychosis
• I simply adore her work. I tend to hate the people who dislike her, they are too conservative...
• Sarah Kane her Psychosis 4.48 is soooooo touching

• I love it because its shocking and a fine version of 'in your face theatre'. I recently performed in a college production of 4.48 and I loved every minute of it
• I think her earlier work is much better, and I don't like her work after Phaedra's Love
• scene four, Phaedra's Love. the tension, and release, the unbearable truth that she can't make Hippolytus love her. The almost rape like quality of making her swallow
• she is talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself is more than her pride can take
• I adore her plays because she simply changed my life... She spoke on behalf of me
• I like it when the red water comes out
• it is like a kick in the face
• because in her plays I find broken pieces of my soul!
• she is open, she is poetic and vulgar simultaneously, but what makes her extraordinary to me is that she doesn't use any euphemisms at all and thus depicts the world we live in. No matter how repulsive some scenes are they are all realistic and exist off stage.  I have seen a fabulous performance done by a group of students in Vienna. Give these people and other people like them a chance to be seen because I think that Psychosis has so many different interpretations. It is and it is not autobiographical, pszchosis is a state that is common. We have all been there. Some of us manage to conceal it better than the others
• porque é verdadeiro
   
• the truth about love, violence, and the interconnection between cruelty and humanity
• I'm doing my dissertation on all of Sarah Kane's work. I am exploring the meaning beneath the brutality. I recently read an extract from Domonic Dromgoole's 'The Full Room', and it moved me to hear her struggle in ink. I am constantly fighting to defend her work against the view that it was 'shocking for the sake of' rather than an exploration of the cruelty of humanity. Last week I went to see the opening shows of Cleansed, by Oxford stage company. I was extremely angry that six people forced their way out of the auditorium during the first five scenes- in my opinion this was done for the sake of causing a disturbance I the performance- perhaps we as a society are so blind that we cannot see what is before us. Sarah Kane's ability to see the world for what it really is leaves me in awe of her sight
• Sarah Kane's works are not that of which you can love. They are very grotesque, and very shocking. Even though I think that Sarah Kane had a lot of skill in what she was writing, and made excellent points the way she writes, sure points out that this is not 'bedtime story' material. I think it's great though, that somebody finally came out and said what was really need to be said at the time. Her works continue to be brilliant to this day, and I only wish she was still alive to write more...
• I impressed by her passion, imagination, and more more more....
• because it speaks for what's going on inside your head and inside your soul. and though it's hard and violently it's tender and true. because she has spoken for so many things with so little words. because she has spoken for so many things in a way that nobody else had the courage to do it
• Sarah is such an amazing writer and I like the fact that a woman is behind this outstanding play writing.  All I can say is I found out about Sarah Kane 4 days ago and I'm addicted to every thing she has wrote and completed in her life
• I love Sarah Kane's work, I have become a great fan in the last few years.  I don't see how people can dislike her work, its an expression. and it was about time someone put this type of THEATRE onto the stage
• I think its fantastic as she just didn't care about being ''safe'' as a writer and I respect that bravery so much
• I like how she relates it back to her life
• she has started a new way of writing as was not afraid to change her style or to experiment with language and imagery

• book "love me or kill me" is all you need
• I love her honesty and rawness she is a real role model
• she is simply superb
• I went to see Blasted in Bergen, Norway, a couple of weeks ago, and I have never seen anything like it. The images and stomach-feelings keeps hanging inside you. Thorleif Linhave Bamle, the young director, is going to make his way I am sure. I was really impressed. And Sarah Kane makes it clear for me why the theatre is so unique
• I love her deeply... I had the luck of playing all 4.48 text in Urbino (Italy) when I studied at University. Since then I bring always her works by me because now I consider her my friend.. I understand her feelings, her emotions, her depression, her absolute passion... now on I know her soul. I love her at all
• I like Kane's work because of the sheer extremes, it has enabled theatre to grasp a new perspective and I have just completed a module on Kane at University
• I am a nobody.  I'm 16 and I sought a man's advice on an audition piece.  I got thrust a library of books to deliberate.  Play writes' names meant nothing to me. The first I picked up was Sarah Kane complete works.  My audition is in 2 days I havn't brought myself to pick up any others. I am in awe of this woman. She wouldn't like this site
• the morbid fascination of cruelty and the beauty of innocence is apparent in abundance in Blasted
• original in places, makes you feel moved sometimes, but no better in fact than the contemporary theory of culture, repetitive and unattractive
• as I have performed 4.48 psychosis, for my AS level drama at Warren Sixth Form Romford Essex, it would have to be that. The whole play is fascinating and disturbing at the same time. The medical notes scene, is the hardest lines I have to learn, but what a great challenge. The end scene was the best part of 4.48, the pure realisation that she can finally be free in death, is tear-jerking, "In Death you hold me never free...it is myself I've never met...please open the curtains. Kane produced pure brilliance! But I can't forget Cleansed, Tinker is a great role to play, I really want to do it some day! I've learnt so much from Sarah Kane, she is, for me, the most powerful playwright, whose plays I have had the privilege of reading and performing. Its true that GENIUS' DIE YOUNG! (and that is so true for Kane). Maybe someday, someone will follow in her footsteps, and be as great or greater. Society and Theatre needs it!

• I like Sarah Kane because of the fragility and at the same time brutality of her work, because of her specific and genuine seeing and describing of love, cruelty, war, despair...
• I love Sarah Kane's work because she pushed drama to it's fullest and even though audience and critics did not understand or even like her work she pursued to use Artaudian drama and theatre of cruelty to teach audiences about her work. I think she truly was a legend!
• because she is an amazing writer, and the more you read her stuff the more you start to notice things on a more subtle level
• I am in 4.48 psychosis, and she is the most amazing thing I have ever had the PLEASURE to explore, memorize, and become, I just hope I can do it the justice it deserves.  The best warm most wonderful words
• I like her because she's realistic. She wrote from her heart
• she's so direct and open and desperate
• a brutal, hard-hitting writer- sometimes wrote like Stoppard without the comedy so that all that's left is black
• Sarah Kane's ideas on 'In-Yer-Face' theatre are amazing! Her brutality is out of this world, but I do feel that only her own work shows off her Brilliance. Phaedra's Love wasn't one of her best plays but I think that is because it was her own interpretation of a traditional Greek play. She was asked to do this play, I feel that if this were her own work then she would have had more freedom
  on reading about the tragic suicide of this astonishing playwright and then reading her last ever play, 4.48 Psychosis I got this feeling that she was trying to tell us something. I believe it was her final message to us, even possibly her suicide note? The resemblances to her life and to the words and action within the play and are uncanny!! I don't know how u feel on this matter? but maybe it can be up for discussion? "A tab of pain
  Stabbing my lungs
  A tab of death
  Squeezing my heart
  I'll die
  not yet
  but it's there"

• its so different and full of depth, every line has a meaning
• love the performance value, especially in Crave
   
• I love the way Kane is one of the few writers who can actually define and convey the feeling of utter psychotic turmoil... I feel the only reason some people do not like / appreciate her work is because it does the unconventional, and dares to explore the brutal and frightening underlayer of the sugar-coated world that the rest of literature depicts
• I admire the way Kane kept changing and revolutionised the form of her plays. I like Crave so much because of it's poetic style and the rhythms
• in 4.48 trying to learn flash, flicker is the hardest task I have ever had to master but it was a great challenge. I love the emotion that is behind it and the truth behind her words
• I really like Kane's work because it's so REAL
• lack of beautification
• my name is Sarah Kane, and I would love to see what u r doing with my name
• for me Sarah was, and is, not only incredible because of her poetry through words and image, but because of her incredible ability to a rawness in form and structure and take that to another plane. I cannot have favorites in her work because each time I come to read or see these works there is something else from her writing that grabs my insides and won't let go
• wherever Sarah's fresh and invigorating spirit and artistic talent came from is a rare and incredible place
• that she did not finish one of her pieces
• she has so much balls it's hard not to admire her
   
• she pushed the boundaries of acting, staging, directing, theatre in general with her fantastic writing. She is a legend!!!
• I think Sarah's writing is beautiful however, as I am a Christian found it to be extremely blasphemous. She shouldn't have blamed her state of depression on God. God will never make you depressed. Dont forget your own free will and the will to do what you desire. How about blaming some on Evil. The devil works too and would have worked hard at making her fall from Grace. That being the Grace of God. I find that cursing God's name is deeply offensive and draws more and more people to her writing. I believe if Kane had more Faith in God she might never have gone through with taking her own life
• Sarah Kane has a unique and contemporary voice to her works that challenge both audiences/directors and casts
• it's honest, raw and brutal. However, so many people have grasped onto it, labelling it as the epitome of 'in-yer-face' I'm not so sure it is, Ravenhill or Neilson can be much more 'in-yer-face'... just my personal opinion...
• powerful, balzy, educational, emotional, raw, intelligent...incredible.  Read every one of her plays again and again and again and again...she will forever enlighten your world with words so powerful they will change the way you think, act and perceive life!!!
• raw theatre mate! raw theatre!
• because all plays like real
• I like Sarah's work b/c she can see beyond the world and the typical "play." She can make the truest things that people like to tuck away in a corner or sweep them under the rug and make it a reality
• I like it very much
• I connect to them on a basic human level
   
• there is everything.  Life, sex, truth, violence, love, ever tenderness
• all you people that 'dont get it' are talking shit about Crave.  I'm doing it as an AS piece and when you look deep into it... it makes perfect sense. She wanted you to interpret it in your own way =).  Its one of the best plays ever!
• it gives me a mirror of myself
• unique, daring and real
• Sarah Kane writes poetry and music. She writes emotions, rather than words. Her plays are brutal, but for some reason never vulgar. There is always tenderness. I've always wanted to know why Sarah Kane actually killed herself
• thanks the page has been useful we are writing a short piece at college using sarah kane as a theme and was just wondering wheter there was any basic informantion on her her music taste (I know about pixies and creep) and her dress sense what was she like thanks
• the way she tackles unmentionable topics so daringly.  I like the way she talks about topics that are so unmentionable yet they are mentionable because as a society we all know that this happens yet we are afraid to say it
• I write in Italian, sorry but my English can't... Quello che annienta di Sarah Kane è la sua capacità di giungere e di espriemere con coscienza il lato oscuro e irraggiungibile dell'essenza del proprio io, che è poi l'io di tutti coloro che hanno pensato almeno una volta al suicidio, l'io di coloro che sentono il dolore della strada, l'io di chi ancora non ha perso la capacità di commuoversi e di comunicare una necessità
• I only disliked the extreme cruelty of Tinker in Cleansed
• I adore sarah kane's work because it truly is unique. i hate it when people call 4.48 psychosis a suicide not, i firmly believe that it wasn't and calling it such severely detracts from it. however it's almost as if her suicide authenticates her work. reading it knowing that she killed herself makes it so much more immediate. you find yourself shocked by how real it all is

• it's so intense and abstract, it really covers the different state's of the human mind, and each of her plays are so capturing and inspirational
• it's revolutionary in drama, and it brings back spirituality to theatre