Sarah Kane
Birth date: February 03, 1971
Died: February 20, 1999
Sarah Kane's Books
There have been three great shocks in post-war English theatre. The first was Edward Bond's Saved (1965), which features a baby being stoned to death on stage; the second was Howard Brenton's The Romans In Britain (1980), the first on-stage depiction of homosexual intercourse. Sarah Kane's Blasted w...
Reading Sarah Kane was like getting punches in the stomach, in the mouth and in the vagina.
I went to see it with somebody who had been incarcerated and she defended it vigorously against my lack of sympathy. Or perhaps that should be empathy.
Yeah, this one's going to take a while to properly sink in and analyse. Brutal.
This is the play Kane referred to as her comedy. Great piece of work but I'm pretty certain she was being facetious when she said that.
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