Body, Mind, & Health - Drama

Crave

Name: Crave
Author: Sarah Kane
ISBN: 9780413728807

by Sarah Kane

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Overview

Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.

Produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd (Guy Chapman and Paul Spyker), Crave premiered at the Traverse Theatre for the 1998 Edinburgh Festival. It received its English premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in September 1998.

Synopsis

Charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love , loss and desire.

About the Author, Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane studied at Bristol and Birmingham universities. Recognized as a highly influential voice in theatre, her work was championed by the Royal Court and is widely studied in the USA and UK. She took her own life in 1999 at age 28.

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"A hugely unnerving theatrical experience, shot through with the language of the Bible and a genuinely poetic richness"—Time Out

"A dramatic poem in the late-Beckett style, sometimes a chamber quartet for lost voices"—The Times of London