Sarah Kane was a young, very controversial English contemporary playwright and poet during 1990's. Her works revolve around themes of love, torture, sex and death and are well-known for including very graphic on-stage torture and violence. Her work has been labelled with the term 'In-yer-face theatre' by the critic Aleks Sierz, this type of theatre includes the works of Anthony Neilson and Mark Ravenhill. In her short lifetime she wrote five plays (Blasted, Phaedra's Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis) and one short film (Skin). Kane struggled with severe depression towards the end of her life and eventually killed herself in 1999. This affected her life and her writing in an extreme way, her fellow playwright and friend Mark Ravenhill described in her obituary that 'Kane fell out of love with life. And so began great, harrowing cycles of depression, self-hate and hospitalisation.' In terms of her inspirations and motives, Kane was deeply affected by ...
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