4.48 Psychosis
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Powerhouse Play from Theatre Company TR Warszawa...New York. In 2008 his production of Macbeth was performed on a purpose built stage under New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, his work 4.48 Psychosis was staged at the Edinburgh Festival, and Giovanni was presented in St Petersburg. In this article: Europe, St Petersburg, New York City, Macbeth, 4.48 Psychosis, Teorema, and Pier Paolo Pasolini |
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | 7 days ago
The challenges faced by stage designers
...autumn, blossomed on a gorgeous fairytale design by Rae Smith. In 2000, Jeremy Herbert's set for the premiere of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis used the simple but brilliant device of a giant tilting mirror to reflect the introspective nature...
In this article: Macbeth, Rupert Goold, William Shakespeare, National Theatre, Falstaff, All's Well That Ends Well, and War Horse
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Times Online | October 28, 2009
Oxford English
...nicely condensed insights. Neil Gaiman manifests "an erudite sensitivity to the dark undercurrents of folklore"; Sarah Kane's play 4.48 Psychosis is "much more than the suicide note its title suggests"; and Sam Selvon's fiction relates...
In this article: Hermione Lee, Oxford English, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide, Richard Carew, and Carroll John Daly
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nymag.com: Theater | October 25, 2009
Brooklyn Hearts Huppert
...however, she has done time in Brooklyn. Four years ago, she starred in an acclaimed French version of Sarah Kane's brutal, spare 4.48 Psychosis at BAM, and next week she returns for Robert Wilson's twice-removed take on Les Liaisons...
In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Wilson, Brooklyn, Heiner Muller, Sarah Kane, Dracula, 4.48 Psychosis, Edward Steichen, and I Heart Huckabees
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The Japan Times: All Stories | October 22, 2009
Tokyo theater scene gets kiss of life
Ready for action: Norimizu Ameya (in green top) at a rehearsal of "4.48 Psychosis." NOBUKO TANAKA PHOTOS Tokyo theater scene gets kiss of life Festival/Tokyo boasts 16 main programs (seven from abroad) and runs for two months The...
In this article: Tokyo, 4.48 Psychosis, and Japan
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washingtonpost.com | October 14, 2009
Factory 449 Stages Sarah Kane's '4.48 Psychosis' at the Warehouse Theater
...a sensory deprivation chamber just a fraction, and the mood is thrown off. That seems to have happened to Factory 449's production of "4.48 Psychosis," which was a powerful, hypnotic entry in this past summer's Capital Fringe Festival.
In this article: Sarah Kane and 4.48 Psychosis
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From the Fringe to Center Stage
...Festival by storm, sweeping up both the Pick of the Fringe award for best drama and the prize for best show with its performance of "4.48 Psychosis." The script is compelling all by itself, but the haunting back story also adds to the...
In this article: Suicide, Evil Dead: The Musical, 4.48 Psychosis, Beatles, Sarah Kane, Facebook, and Sam Raimi
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Guardian | October 04, 2009
I would rather be laughing Michael Billington
...applicants to the profession whose sole ambition is to give us new versions of Buchner's Woyzeck, Beckett's Play or Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Nothing wrong with any of those pieces. But suggest to young directors that they take a look...
In this article: The School for Scandal, Nicholas Hytner, Haymarket, National Theatre, Buoyancy, Danton's Death, and Woyzeck
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Also showing: 4.48 Psychosis, Ghosts and Troilus and Cressida
Navigation - link to other main sections from here Also showing: 4.48 Psychosis, Ghosts and Troilus and Cressida 4.48 Psychosis at the Young Vic, SE1 When she steps on stage in scuffed jeans and a tank top, sporting a short, feathery...
In this article: 4.48 Psychosis, Troilus and Cressida, Anamaria Marinca, Sarah Kane, Troilus, Cressida, and William Shakespeare
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Capital Fringe Festival Reviews: '4.48 Psychosis,' 'Slow News Day' and More
...26 -- consult http://www.capitalfringe.org. British dramatist Sarah Kane was 28 when she killed herself in 1999, shortly after completing "4.48 Psychosis," and the drama's insight into the anger and guilt of the truly desperate will leave...
In this article: 4.48 Psychosis, Titus Andronicus, Sarah Kane, MTV, and The Elephant Man
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washingtonpost.com | July 11, 2009
'4.48 Psychosis': The Bitter End
...for live music, movies, restaurants and exhibits delivered straight to your inbox. '4.48 Psychosis': The Bitter End Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis" comes to the Fringe Festival. (Capital Fringe Festival) "Is this the line for the...
In this article: 4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane, Suicide, and London
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4.48 Psychosis is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on June 23, 2000, nearly one and a half years after Kane's February 20, 1999 death. The play has no explicit characters or stage directions and appears more similar to an E. E. Cummings poem on the page than a performance piece (in this it resembles the dramaturgical strategies of the American modernist playwright Gertrude Stein). Stage productions of the play vary greatly, therefore, with between one and several actors in performance.
The play is written from the point of view of someone with severe clinical depression, a disorder from which Kane suffered. A repeated motif in the play is "serial sevens": counting down from one hundred by sevens, a bedside test often used by psychiatrists to test for loss of concentration or memory. According to her friend and fellow-playwright David Greig, the title of the play derives from the time, 4:48 a.m., when Kane, in her depressed state often woke. Greig considered the play to be 'perhaps uniquely painful in that it appears to have been written in the almost certain knowledge that it would be performed posthumously.' Some critics have had difficulty in distinguishing the play from the reality of Kane's life. Michael Billington of The Guardian newspaper asked, "How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note?"
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