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'Is it possible, asks the text, for a person to be born in the wrong body, at the wrong time? Yes, is the answer. But sometimes, from that agony, a great soul can wrestle something as beautiful and true as this remarkable play.' Scotsman (4 November 2008) '4.48 Psychosis still feels immediate, intimate and raw - if anything, the onward march of our confessional culture has made it feel even more contemporary.' Aleks Sierz, Tribune, 7.8.09 'Sarah Kane's last play, written before she killed herself 10 years ago, has been described as a theatrical suicide note. That sells it short. It is so much more: a manifesto for living by one about to die.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 25.7.09 'an extraordinary exploration of the human condition, and of psychological disintegration in particular. It exposes the terrifying clarity of the acute depressive's unblinking certainty that their existence is intolerable and can never be otherwise; the play's title refers to Kane's early morning moments of such cruel lucidity.' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 28.7.09 'Kane's fractured poetry, lacerating in its anguish and devil-driven dark humour' Sam Marlowe, The Times, 28.7.09
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4.48 Psychosis was written throughout the autumn and winter of 1998-99 as Kane battled with one of her recurrent bouts of depression. On February 20, 1999, aged 28, the playwright committed suicide. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters are named, and even their number is unspecified. It could be a journey through one person's mind, or an interview between a doctor and his patient.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Sarah Kane's final play, completed weeks before her tragic death last year, explores clinical depression and suicide. It would be all too easy to dismiss the play as Sarah's own suicide note, but that would be to do it an injustice. As with all her other plays, here Sarah writes from the heart on issues that affect her enormously. The heroine's examination of her emotions - being trapped in a depression, pain of lost love and of longing for an unattainable perfect partner, fixation with the notion of killing herself at 4.48 - is both harrowing and genuinely moving. Sarah has also lost none of her famous black humour - lines like "Nothing will interfere with your work more than suicide" and the classic "The doctor gave me eight minutes to live. I'd been in the f***ing waiting room half an hour" light up this play like fireworks on a pitch black night. It is also very gratifying to see her hurl words of her detractors back in their faces! The final scene, as the heroine says "Watch me vanish" and lies down to die, reduced me and at least one more audience member to tears - while the printed page cannot quite convey the effect of the stage production, nonetheless I cannot recommend this play enough. Make the most of this slice of a brilliantly original and unique talent - alas, there will be no more, and there will never be another like her. Adieu, Sarah.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is an amazing play. On one hand - Sarah Kane's own suicide note - on another, something much more than that. I experienced a performance of this before I read it - for those of you familiar with Artaudian techniques - this was full on.
My friends were in the production - but I couldn't recognise them. When I looked into their eyes they were blank.
This play touches something really deep in you - it's hard to describe unless you've experienced it.
If you get the chance to see this as a proper Artaudian performance (i.e. no barrier between audience and actor - other than health and safety regulations!) then I would definately recommend it - it's amazing.
My friends were in the production - but I couldn't recognise them. When I looked into their eyes they were blank.
This play touches something really deep in you - it's hard to describe unless you've experienced it.
If you get the chance to see this as a proper Artaudian performance (i.e. no barrier between audience and actor - other than health and safety regulations!) then I would definately recommend it - it's amazing.
Format:Paperback
Somehow I think it's fitting that the cover of 4.48 Psychosis is just dense black. It was a play about nothingness, despair, the end of the road and the final descent into the void. Dark and downbeat, but ripe with a sad, abstract lyricism similar to that found in Joy Division songs, which were an influence on Kane.
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a saner life tomorrow
I read the text three times this year and saw a german performance on stage. I think the text is difficult to perform because there is no „real" dialogue in the text. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2005 by Bernd Kotz
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Reading this play made me physically ache all over. It is powerful, shocking, moving, beautiful and heartbreakingly tragic. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2004
The Brilliance of Sarah Kane
It is hard not to use words such as 'wonderful', 'fantastic', 'stunning' etc when describing Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis. Read more
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