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Sarah Kane

SARAH KANE

  (1971 - 1999)
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Casarotto Ramsay and Associates Ltd  

Sarah Kane (3 February 1971  20 February 1999) was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture  both physical and psychological  and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself, as well as scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, identify some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. Critics, including Aleks Sierz, have seen her work as part of what Sierz calls the In-Yer-Face style of theatre, a form of drama which broke away from the conventions of naturalist theatre. Kane's published work consists of five plays, three mnonologues,one short film, Skin, and two newspaper articles for The Guardian. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane

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below is a list of Sarah Kane's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         4:48 Psvchosis         Blasted         Cleansed         Comic Monologue         Crave         Phaedra's Love         Starved         What She Said
4:48 Psvchosis

4:48 Psvchosis
What happens to a person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality and different forms of imagination completely disappear

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in Kane: Complete Plays, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (29 Mar 2001)   

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Blasted

Blasted
In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted opened. It became the cuase celebre of the theatrical year, making front-page headlines and outraging critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war

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Cleansed

Cleansed
In an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables, a group of inmates try to save themselves through love

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Violent fable

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Comic Monologue

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Bristol: Hen And Chicken     24 Apr 1991

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one act

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http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Theatrecollection, Bristol University Theatre Collection [ref: WTC/PS/000246]

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Crave

Crave
set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire

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Phaedra's Love

Phaedra's Love
radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by theseus

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Tragedy

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Starved

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one act

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http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Theatrecollection, Bristol University Theatre Collection [ref: WTC/PS/000245/6]

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What She Said

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Genre:
one act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Theatrecollection, Bristol University Theatre Collection [ref: WTC/PS/000245/7]

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