Sarah Kanes Theatre Of Psychic Life

Author : Leah Sidi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350283134
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life written by Leah Sidi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre. This is the first book to focus exclusively on Kane's unique approach to mind and mental health. It offers an important re-evaluation of her oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind which lies at the heart of her theatrical project. Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane's innovations generate a 'dramaturgy of psychic life', which re-shapes the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice. Through a radically open-ended approach to dramaturgy, Kane's works offer urgent insights into mental suffering that take us beyond traditional discourses of empathy and mental health and into a profound rethinking of theatre as a mode of thought. As such, her theatre can help us to understand debates about mental suffering today.

Author : Sarah Kane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781408103883
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4.48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This student edition presents both the text of the play with explanatory commentary and notes, helping readers and performers understand this last play by controversial playwright Sarah Kane. 4.48 Psychosis is a tough, sparse and moving work and is full of energy and beauty in spite of its bleak themes. The play sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. A single voice, dragged through therapy and endless medication, reveals the true experience of clinical depression. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28. 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. This Student Edition features full supporting notes to help the student reader or performer understand this influential and challenging work.

Author : Sarah Kane
Publisher : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9780413748300
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 4.48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2000-07-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28. 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.

Author : Lea Jasmin Gutscher
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3954898322
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revelation or Damnation? Depictions of Violence in Sarah Kane’s Theatre written by Lea Jasmin Gutscher and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her controversial stage art, the young playwright Sarah Kane broke new dramaturgic ground and made a lasting impression that changed British drama forever. Even though it is part of the canon covering post-war drama, Kane’s work has often met with misunderstanding and fierce criticism due to the uncountable representations of atrocities. How can we make sense of Kane’s seemingly crude and bleak theatre? Mainly concentrating on the play Cleansed, the author examines the nature of violence in Kane’s writing. What purpose does it serve? Is it simply employed for its shock value? Or is it rather used as a metaphor? Kane herself considered her third full-length play as a play about love. In suggesting a figurative reading of the late playwright’s texts, the author shows how Kane embraces violence as a metaphor of the various sufferings both love and life perpetrate upon the human being. Locked beneath the revolting cruelties, we can find a vivid theatricality, powerful images, and a unique rhythm and sound of language.

Author : Sarah Kane
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crave written by Sarah Kane and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Length: 1 act.

Author : Sarah Kane
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 : 9781408103852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blasted written by Sarah Kane and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history. In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted sent shockwaves throughout the theatrical world. Making front-page headlines, the play outraged critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war. However, from being roundly condemned by the critics ('this disgusting feast of filth' Daily Mail), the play is now considered a seminal work of European theatre and has defined an entire era of stage writing. Blasted's canonical status reflects the raw beauty and terror of Kane's writing. Probing the brutality people inflict upon one another, the suffering and violation, the play also looks at the role of love and the redemption it offers. Unafraid to delve into darkness, this is a provocative, fragmenting piece full of significance and power.

Author : Albert Rothenberg
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400472
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Madness written by Albert Rothenberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intrigued by history's list of "troubled geniuses,"Albert Rothenberg investigates how two such opposite conditions—outstanding creativity and psychosis—could coexist in the same individual. Rothenberg concludes that high-level creativity transcends the usual modes of logical thought—and may even superficially resemble psychosis. But he also discovers that all types of creative thinking generally occur in a rational and conscious frame of mind, not in a mystically altered or transformed state. Far from being the source—or the price—of creativity, Rothenberg discovers, psychosis and other forms of mental illness are actually hindrances to creative work. Disturbed writers and absent-minded professors make great characters in fiction, but Rothenberg has uncovered an even better story—the virtually infinite creative potential of healthy human beings.

Author : Glenn D'Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351599372
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis written by Glenn D'Cruz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" – 4.48 Psychosis How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of 4.48 Psychosis’ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in which it misses the point. Kane’s final play is much more than a bizarre farewell to mortality. It’s a work best understood by approaching it first and foremost as theatre – as a singular component in a theatrical assemblage of bodies, voices, light and energy. The play finds an unexpectedly close fit in the established traditions of modern drama and the practices of postdramatic theatre. Glenn D’Cruz explores this theatrical angle through a number of exemplary professional and student productions with a focus on the staging of the play by the Belarus Free Theatre (2005) and Melbourne’s Red Stitch Theatre (2007).

Author : Aleks Sierz
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318495
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In-Yer-Face Theatre written by Aleks Sierz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most controversial and newsworthy plays of British theatre are a rash of rude, vicious and provocative pieces by a brat pack of twentysomethings whose debuts startled critics and audiences with their heady mix of sex, violence and street-poetry. In-Yer-Face Theatre is the first book to study this exciting outburst of creative self-expression by what in other contexts has been called Generation X, or Thatcher's Children, the 'yoof' who grew up during the last Conservative Government. The book argues that, for example, Trainspotting, Blasted, Mojo and Shopping and F**king are much more than a collection of shock tactics - taken together, they represent a consistent critique of modern life, one which focuses on the problem of violence, the crisis of masculinity and the futility of consumerism. The book contains extensive interviews with playwrights, including Sarah Kane ( Blasted), Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F**king), Philip Ridley (The Pitchfork Disney), Patrick Marber (Closer) and Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane).

Author : Marius von Mayenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783196351
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eldorado written by Marius von Mayenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton’s got it made: dream house, artistic wife, baby on the way. And, as the smoke rises from another city saved by coalition bombs, there’s a fortune to be made rebuilding the wreckage. So what’s he doing forging his boss’s signature? And why has his wife crushed her hands under the piano lid? Painfully funny scenes of married bliss in meltdown and the insistent presence, on their screens and in their dreams, of the West's far-flung and half-forgotten wars – Eldorado asks what happens when the drive for success carries us past our coping point.