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Crave extracts at Paines Plough. 4.48 Psychosis in Colchester, UK. Royal Shakespeare Company/ Royal Court revival of 4.48 Psychosis. Two short podcasts on Kane.
Crave extracts at Paines Plough
Paines Plough have their 50th Anniversary Gala on 10 February 2025.
This will feature extracts from previous productions including Sarah
Kane's Crave
featuring Alfred Enoch and directed by the play’s original
director Vicky Featherstone. "Celebrating 50 years of pioneering bold new
writing, the evening will open with an exclusive world premiere short
piece written by Paines Plough patron James Graham, performed by Monica
Dolan as a rallying cry for theatre and new writing. It will be
followed by extracts from some of our past productions, performed by some
incredible guests:". For the
Paines Plough website click here. For more on Crave here.
RSC and Royal Court production of 4.48 Psychosis
in the UK
The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court
Theatre jointly present Kane's 4.48 Psychosis A quarter century from its debut, the entire
original cast and creative team revisit Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece-
director James Macdonald and actors Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes and Madeleine
Potter.
"4.48 Psychosis plunges the audience into the mind of an unnamed
protagonist grappling with severe depression. Kane crafts an unflinching
portrait of a psyche teetering on the edge of oblivion". ‘I dreamt that I went to the doctors, and she gave
me eight minutes to live. I’d been sitting in the fucking waiting room for
half an hour’. The production is at the Royal Court Theatre,
London from 12 June- 5 July 2015. For details click
here, For more on 4.48 Psychosis click
here.
4.48 Psychosis at the Colchester
Fringe Festival, UK
Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is performed by
3wishes theatre CIC as part of the Colchester Fringe Festival from 25- 27
October 2024. It is on at the Headgate Theatre. For more details click the 3wishes theatre CIC
facebook site
here
and the Instagram
site
here . For more on 4.48 Psychosis click
here. Thanks to Wendy for the information.
Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life: Theatre,
Thought and Mental Suffering by Leah Sidi was published on 6 Apr
2023, published by Bloomsbury.
Persian edition of 4.48 Psychosis
The seventh edition of the Persian translation of
4.48 Psychosis has been published by Bidgol in Tehran. The
translator is Erfan Khallaqi. The Bidgol website is
here.
Podcasts on Sarah Kane
Two short but good podcasts
on Sarah Kane's work. They can be downloaded
here.
Cleansed in USA
Sarah Kane's Cleansed is performed in Houston, USA
from 5- 27 April 2024. It is on at the Catastrophic Theatre in Houston, USA. The directors are Jason Nodler and T Lavois
Thiebaud. The actors are Raymond Compton, Bryan Kaplún, Ruben Ramires, T
Lavois Thiebaud, Chuck Vaughn, Abraham Zeus Zapata and Walt Zipprian. "Kane’s work continues to be performed extensively
throughout the world and she has developed a cult-like following in many
Western countries. Yet this production will mark only the fourth time her
work has been seen in Houston. The first was Infernal Bridegroom’s
Phaedra’s Love, also under Nodler’s direction, followed by Catastrophic
Theatre’s Crave in 2011 and 4.48 Psychosis (2021)". For more details click the Catastrophic website
here. For more on Cleansed click
here. Thanks to Danielle for the information.
Cleansed in USA
Sarah Kane's Cleansed is performed in Connecticut from 15 Jan- 26 Jan 2024 at the
David Geffen School of Drama, Yale, Connecticut, USA. There is an all Black cast (with special permission from Simon Kane). For more details click the Yale website
here.
Thanks to Garrett for the information.
Crave in London : POSTPONED
The Angel Theatre Company present Sarah Kane's
Crave. It is on from 3- 7 Oct 2023 at the White Bear.
UNFORTUNATELY THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
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