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4.48 Psychosis

4.48 Psychosis

(4 stars)13 Nov 2008

MODERN CLASSIC It doesn’t seem right to say you have enjoyed Sarah Kane’s final play. Written not long before her suicide in 1999 and staged posthumously, it is a poetic evocation of the mind of someone in the depths of clinical depression. There are…

Anal Art @ Jim Rose Circus

Take 5: Fabulous festival nudes

21 Aug 2008

New Electric Ballroom - Ladies, have we not all dreamed of having our very own fishmonger stripped bare, hosed down and scrubbed by our older sisters before he is presented to us in a glittery blue suit? And there's even a post-nude song to commemorate…

4.48 Psychosis

4.48 Psychosis

Painful journey into despair

(4 stars)16 Aug 2008

Having seen Grzegorz Jarzyna's mesmerising production of this Sarah Kane play on the intimate stage of TR Warszawa in Poland, I was concerned the playwright's sad mediation on suicide would lose its intensity on the bigger stage of the King's. I needn't…

5 Questions - Grzegorz Jarzyna

14 Aug 2008

5 words to describe your production of 4.48 Psychosis Genuine, sad, dark, without applause. 4 words to describe the work of playwright Sarah Kane Honesty, pain, black snow. 3 shows you’re looking forward to seeing in Edinburgh this August…

4.48 Psychosis

Early mourning - 4.48 Psychosis

Edinburgh International Festival

22 Jul 2008

Nine years ago, uncompromising playwright Sarah Kane ended her own life. In an old Warsaw variety theatre, Mark Fisher is shaken by a mesmerising staging of her final work.

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