I just recently saw crave being staged, and it made me become completely obsessed with her work. Cried multiple times while watching it and it had me - in a way - questioning reality as it is. Would love to see her other works being performed live one day. I just wonder what it would be like, because (as far as I know) crave is considered one of her less violent and extreme works. She was an amazing woman and changed my perception on modern day theatre, its just mesmerizing seeing pure, raw emotions being pushed to their limits.
It is strange, but I've never seen a Sarah Kane play staged, or know of any of her works being performed in the United States. And I only became aware of her work after turning my attention to contemporary British theater. Nothing in the American theater community brought her to my attention. I think this implies that theater in the United States is really conservative and unadventurous. I can't imagine any of our theaters doing these sorts of plays.
To the very day European Theater hasn`t found an answer to the challanges given by the work of Sarah Kane. Just as the examination of the work of Heiner Müller came to an hault around the same time. Well both were dead wthin a couple of years. And the dying of the authors were treated as they could be used somehow against there body of work too, especially in the case of Kane, where it became very personally, whereas with Müller it was put in higher dimensions like the breakdown of a whole Eastern Society. Müller`s body of work still overlooked in German theatre as well. In my opinion we can find structral similarities in the Müller texts of the late 70ies just as "Hamletmaschine" (1977), Das Europa der Frau, where a woman comitts suicide even several times and the other both scenes of "Leben Gundlings" (1976) and the Medea story "Verkommenes Ufer" (1982). But maybe I`m the only one yet, that stumbled over these coincidences.
I did my twist on 4.48 Psychosis in high school for a theatre project and it was a lot of fun! (The video of my performance is on my channel btw if any of you are interested) I really like the creative freedom Kane’s work lends to a director
I just recently saw crave being staged, and it made me become completely obsessed with her work. Cried multiple times while watching it and it had me - in a way - questioning reality as it is. Would love to see her other works being performed live one day. I just wonder what it would be like, because (as far as I know) crave is considered one of her less violent and extreme works. She was an amazing woman and changed my perception on modern day theatre, its just mesmerizing seeing pure, raw emotions being pushed to their limits.
She was a truly amazing writer - a revolutionary mind.
It is strange, but I've never seen a Sarah Kane play staged, or know of any of her works being performed in the United States. And I only became aware of her work after turning my attention to contemporary British theater. Nothing in the American theater community brought her to my attention. I think this implies that theater in the United States is really conservative and unadventurous. I can't imagine any of our theaters doing these sorts of plays.
Amiri Baraka's plays during the Black Arts Movement were radical in this way.
To the very day European Theater hasn`t found an answer to the challanges given by the work of Sarah Kane. Just as the examination of the work of Heiner Müller came to an hault around the same time. Well both were dead wthin a couple of years. And the dying of the authors were treated as they could be used somehow against there body of work too, especially in the case of Kane, where it became very personally, whereas with Müller it was put in higher dimensions like the breakdown of a whole Eastern Society. Müller`s body of work still overlooked in German theatre as well. In my opinion we can find structral similarities in the Müller texts of the late 70ies just as "Hamletmaschine" (1977), Das Europa der Frau, where a woman comitts suicide even several times and the other both scenes of "Leben Gundlings" (1976) and the Medea story "Verkommenes Ufer" (1982). But maybe I`m the only one yet, that stumbled over these coincidences.
Really insightful - thanks NT.
I did my twist on 4.48 Psychosis in high school for a theatre project and it was a lot of fun! (The video of my performance is on my channel btw if any of you are interested) I really like the creative freedom Kane’s work lends to a director
2:10 -> 4.48 psychosis
اطروحتي راح تكون عن مسرحياتها my thesis will be about her plays
عظيمة جدًا.. 👏