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Red Stitch is proud to stage the first ever Melbourne production of Sarah Kane’s final, posthumously published play, 4:48 Psychosis to be directed by Alyson Campbell (The Day Room, Fewer Emergencies) who is currently completing a PHD on Kane’s work before taking up a position at Queen’s University Belfast later this year.
Sarah Kane infamously came to the world’s attention in 1995 when her first play Blasted created the biggest theatre scandal in London since Edward Bond’s Saved. Marked by startling, poetic prose and explicit sex and violence, it was also considered disturbing because of its innovative structure. Whilst the Daily Mail described Blasted as "this disgusting feast of filth", Sarah Kane is now acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights to emerge from Britain in the last decade. Kane went on to write four more plays: Phaedra's Love (1996), Cleansed (1998) Crave (1998) and 4:48 Psychosis (2000) written in the months prior to her death.
In light of her tragic death, Sarah Kane’s last play is often described as her ‘suicide note’. It is much more than that. Fiercely poetic, 4:48 Psychosis pushes beyond Kane’s personal experience and poses universal questions about the sanity of our contemporary world. First performed at the Royal Court in 2000, 4:48 Psychosis explores the anguish of human existence from the inside out. With brutal clarity and dark wit, the play is at once eerily lucid and fragmented. Kane wields rhythm and musicality in language, for maximum visceral impact, together with spare, devastating imagery.
“Hypnotic, harrowing and strangely beautiful...a Masterpiece...an act of artistic heroism” - Daily Telegraph
Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents
4:48 Psychosis
by Sarah Kane
Directed by Alyson Campbell
With Olivia Connolly, Richard Bligh, Tom Davies and Suzette Williams
Venue: Red Stitch Actors Theatre, rear 2 Chapel St, St Kilda East (opp Astor)
Dates: Fri July 27 – Sat August 25
Previews: Wed 25 and Thurs 26 July - $18
Times: Wed – Sat 8pm, Sun 6.30pm
Duration: approx 70 mins
Bookings: www.redstitch.net (discounted tix) or on 03 9533 8083 @ $30/20
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