4.48 Psychosis in Florida, USA and Belgium,  Blasted in New York.  The discussion back and improved.  Updates and details of performances are welcome!!  If you attend a performance please let me know what it was like.  Click here to send mail.  Last update 10 Apr 2008.

Actualizacones y detalles de las representaciones son bienvenidas.  También tu opinión de representaciobes que hayas visto.

Crave in London, UK

Crave is on at the Electrician's Basement, London from 2-12 Apr 2008.   It is a site specific performance at Electrician's Basement, Trinity Buoy Wharf, 14 Orchard Place, London- phone: 020 7272 4808 or 07791 602029.

Blasted in New York, USA

Soho Rep Studio, New York were to present Blasted in April.  It is now postponed until Autumn 2008.  Click on the image for more details.  Thanks to Sarah and Shawn for the information.

4.48 Psychosis in Florida, USA

24 Hour Theatre Project present 4.48 Psychosis in South Florida from 17 Apr- 11 May 2008.  Click on the image for more details.

Sarah Kane: Playwrights and their Work- April 2008

Graham Saunders´ new book on Sarah Kane and her plays will be available in April 2008.  More details when available.

Skin on-line (new link)

You can watch Skin on-line (this is a new improved link).  The script is by Sarah Kane, Vincent O´Connell directed and Ewan Bremner and Rose Marcie star.

Click on the image to watch the film. Thanks to Suzy and Ashleigh for the information.

Translations

	Sarah Kane's plays are now available in Swedish.  Samlade pjäser is the Swedish translation of the complete plays. Two of the plays has been produced at the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Cleansed and 4.48 Psychosis) and one (Crave) in two fringe theatre groups (Cinnober and Darling Desperados).  Phaedra's love and Blasted is translated for this publication and not yet produced on stage in Sweden. Click on the image for more details. Thanks to Rikard for the information.
	Blasted and Phaedra's Love have been translated into Greek.   More info is welcome.
	Love me or kill me : Sarah Kane et le théâtre.  Graham Saunders excellent book about Sarah Kane's work is now available on French. Click on the link for details.

The Tindersticks 4.48 Psychosis tribute

The new CD of The Tindersticks includes a song, 4.48 Psychosis, using  Sarah Kane's text. You can buy it from Amazon by clicking the image (left Amazon USA, right Amazon UK)

Kane discussion and parts of Crave on-line

On the links page for Crave there is a site with an audio discussion on Sarah Kane, including excerpts from Crave.  Click here for the links page.

Recent site changes:

• updates to links 3 Apr 2008
• the Hot News page and the feedback page are updated at least every two weeks

Too late- you missed it:

4.48 Psychosis and Sarah Kane symposium in Belgium

Théâtre Océan Nord, Brussels present 4.48 Psychosis on 11- 29 Mar 2008.  The director is Isabelle Pousseur.  On 15 Mar 208 there will also be a day devoted to Sarah Kane and her work.  More details when available.  Thanks to Florence for the information.

Discussion back on-line

After a long wait the discussion is back on-line in a much improved format.  Click here to try it out.  And the old discussion site has been added but without the spam.

4.48 Psychosis in Australa

Photo Jodie Hutchinson

Red Stitch Actors Theatre presents 4:48 Psychosis.  The actors are Richard Bligh, Tom Davies, Suzette Williams, Olivia Connolly.   The director is Alyson Campbell.  It is at the Red Stitch Actors Theatre, St Kilda East from 27 Jul– 25 Aug 2007.

"Four actors (Red Stitch ensemble member Olivia Connolly with guest actors, Richard Bligh, Tom Davies and Suzette Williams) tackle the words and mixed emotions as a chorus of sorts, a fragmented chorus bearing down deftly on the fragmented poetry within the play. The ensemble delivers a resounding and playful array of voices foregrounding the rhythm of words, their meter, alliteration, lyricism and elegiac tone. It is this predisposition to poetic, rather than emotive interpolation or expressive angst that serves Campbell’s direction well. Actors fluctuate between stylization, naturalism and expressive Jacobean voices (which Kane admired) threading agony and ecstasy into a sublime tapestry of discontent. It is simultaneously challenging, confronting and awesome.

In one of many standout scenes, the actors shuffle like a slapstick chorus line citing in sing songy fashion the ebbs and flows of a life beset by chemical cocktails of prescriptive medicine, debilitating exasperating side effects, and the inevitable, a penultimate will to suicide.

4:48 is uttered earnestly by each actor throughout the play; it interrupts the unrelenting darkness of depression, like an interval, mystical almost. 4:48 we learn is the cursory time when sanity resides, in the quietude of early morning as first light unfurls. It is this motif for redemption, albeit fleeting, that tends to linger. Kane’s metaphor lends us to nature’s greatest cycle, night and day. Maybe Kane is reminding us that golden daylight surely follows the long dark night of the soul. Memorable, nuanced performances. Must see for newcomers to Kane and Kane aficionados alike."


 

Phaedra's Love in Israel

Phaedra's Love is presented in the Tm-una theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Directing and dramaturgy are by Lilach Dekel-Avneri.  The actors are Yishai Golan, Maya Maron, Yael Zafrir, Noam Rotem and Lanny Shachaf-Banai.  The tanslation is by Yotam Benshalom, music is by Noam Rotem, vocal creation Rif Cohen, sound design: Danny Meir, stage design, light and video Iris Mualem

Click on the image above for more details.  Thanks to Lilach and Maya for the information.

Crave in Buenos Aires

The independent theater El Lavapies present Crave in Buenos Aires.  The actors are Javier Acuña, Carolina Adamovsky, Gaby Ferrero and Javier Lorenzo.  The translation is by Jaime Arrambide and the director is Cristian Drut.

"crave /kreiv/ [del Inglés Antiguo crafian, implorar] v.t. 1. necesitar con urgencia, requerir 2. suplicar, implorar, pedir encarecidamente. 2. apetecer, anhelar, ansiar, desear vehementemente. ¾ v.i. (gen. con for) sentir deseo vehemente (por), tener antojo (de), anhelar.  Sarah Kane decía a propósito de Crave: "Lo veo más como un texto para representar que como una obra en si misma..." "Quise descubrir que tan buena poeta podía ser al mismo tiempo que escribia algo dramático."

Click on the image for more details.  Thanks to Andres for the information.

Gesäubert (Cleansed) in Vienna, Austria

Cleansed (Gesäubert) is performed in German in Vienna, Austria from the 25-30 Sept 2007.  It is at the WUK Projektraum.  The director is Jérôme Junoda and the actors are Bernd-Christian Althoff (Carl), Florian Köhler (Tinker), Marie Jung (Grace), Alexander Julian Meile (Graham), Angela Smigoc (woman), Markus Subramaniam (Robin) and Wojo van Brouwer (Rod).  Click on the image for more details.  Thanks to Jérôme for the information.

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