Blasted
Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of...
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Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil war was simply an attempt to shock audiences. The questions raised in this play about violence are at the heart of Kane's writing.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780413766205 (0413766209)
Publish date: July 1st 2003
Publisher: A&C Black
Pages no: 61
Edition language: English
I chose not to give a rating to this play because it is not something you can just simply hate or like. True, I never want to see this being performed on stage because I don't think I would be able to stand it but at the same time, it is so raw that the message it imparts will have you thinking hour...