Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis The Fourth Wall Series
"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).
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Contextualising 4.48 Psychosis: 'Everybody loves a dead girl' – Sarah Kane as innovator and icon
Chapter 2: Reading 4.48 Psychosis: The flaw in love (and psychiatry)
Chapter 3: Theorising 4.48 Psychosis: 4.48 Psychosis as postdramatic theatre
Chapter 4: Teaching 4.48 Psychosis: Performance and pedagogy
Chapter 5: Performing 4.48 Psychosis: From Minsk to Melbourne
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Glenn D’Cruz teaches Drama and Cultural Studies at Deakin University, Australia.
Date de parution : 09-2018
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Kane’s Play; Aleks Sierz; In Yer Face; Postdramatic Theatre; Postdramatic; Kane’s Work; Pharmacology; Kane’s Writing; Suicide; Joy Division; Blasted; Red Stitch; Didascalia; In-yer Face Theatre; Avant Garde; NFL Playoff; Glenn D'Cruz; Lukashenko Regime; Actor Spectator Relationship; Kane’s Theatre; Linear Time Structure; Kane’s Critics; Experience Unpleasant Emotions; Explicit Stage Directions; English Surtitles; Royal Court Production; Grotowski’s Concept; Wooster Group; Trigger Warnings; Explicit Polaroids; Pathological Grief; Deliberate Musicality; Kane’s Life