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Sarah Kane wrote five plays and one television script.
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1995 Blasted
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Blasted shook London´s theatre world with critics unable to handle its violence and energy ("a disgusting piece of filth").

 

1996 Phaedra´s Love
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Kane adapts and directs the classical story Phaedra by Seneca.

 

1997 Skin
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A ten minute television script written by Kane. A skinhead, Billy, comes in contact with a black girl. One of them is a victim.

 

1998 Cleansed
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Kane says "almost every line in Cleansed has more than one meaning... I wanted to stretch the theatrical language".

 

1998 Crave
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Kane says "I wanted to find out how good a poet I could be while still writing something dramatic".

 

2000 4.48 Psychosis
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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

(David Greig from the Introduction to the Collected Plays)

 

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