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Absolute Kane: On-line theses
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An
Ethics of Catastrophe by Ken Urban. An
11 page analysis of Kane's work. Urban is
good at describing the theatre world of the
time. He gives good insights into the
plays.
Click on the image for the article.
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The
Notion of Cruelty in the Work of Sarah Kane by
Gaëlle Ranc
A full length dissertation on Sarah
Kane's work.
Click on the image for the article (8 pages).
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Sarah
Kane: Dramaturgie de la Violence by Emilie
Gouband
A full length dissertation on Sarah
Kane's work. In French.
Click on the image for the article (5 pages).
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Decoding
Sarah Kane
Dimensions of Metaphoricity in Cleansed by Timo
PfaffAn in-depth look at
Cleansed: "Grace dresses in her
dead brothers clothes after which she
breaks down. This may be a hint that she relived
the pains her brother went through. To share pain
with another person is an expression of ultimate
closeness" (6 pages).
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A
Controlled Detonation:
The Protean Voice of 4:48 Psychosis (first seven
fragments)
by Mustafa SakaryaFocussing
on the plays literary qualities and
strategies as they are written down in order to
demonstrate how Kane invented her own unique
narrative consciousness, a dynamic protean voice
that pushes theatrical boundaries to their limit
in order to represent the brutality of severe
depression, medication, psychosis, death and
love (7 pages).
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Absolute Kane: In-depth
analysis in print
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Graham Saunders book Love me or kill me gives
good coverage of the plays, and has interviews
with Kane directors and actors.
Aleks Sierzīs book In-Yer-Face has a good
chapter on Sarah Kane, as well as extensive
coverage of in-yer-face theatre.
Both books are excellent and are
highly recommended.
Click here for more
information on books.
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Aleks Sierzīs site
gives a good overview of "in yer face"
playwrights like Kane www.inyerface-theatre.com Caryl
Churchill is like Kane highly experimental. Top
Girls is well worth searching out and reading and
seeing. And she is still producing beautiful
work, such as her recent work Far Away. Caryl
Churchill admired Kane's work, and Sarah Kane
admired Churchill's work.
Harold Pinter is the most respected
living playwright in Britain. And he went out his
way to support Sarah Kane both personally and
publicly. Mountain Language shows his commitment
to human rights with a compassion as great as
Kane's.
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