Crave

Name: Crave
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780413728807
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By Sarah Kane

Series: Modern Plays

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Crave unfolds in an unnamed city, weaving a haunting tapestry of voices and images that explore the fracturing of a human mind amidst themes of love, loss and desire. This poetic, deeply unsettling play employs biblical language to evoke the inner turmoil and profound emotional landscapes of its characters.
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This challenging and poetically intense work will appeal to readers and theatre enthusiasts interested in modern experimental drama and explorations of human psychology through avant-garde language and form.

A study of young people and their attitudes towards sex, sexuality and trans-sexuality, by the author of "Blasted". 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.

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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.

"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)

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.

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Time Out London describes Crave as Sarah Kane's penultimate and most lyrical work, praising her ability to find beauty within moral squalor. The play has been acclaimed for its poetic richness and dramatic intensity, making it a powerful theatrical experience.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780413728807

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 1998

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Methuen Drama

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 4.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 78g

Pages: 64

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About the Author

Sarah Kane was born in 1971. Her first play, Blasted, was produced at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in 1995. Her second play, Phaedra's Love, was produced at the Gate Theatre in 1996. In April 1998, Cleansed was produced at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, and in September 1998, Crave was produced by Paines Plough and Bright Ltd at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Her last play, 4.48 Psychosis, premiered at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in June 2000. Her short film, Skin, produced by British Screen/Channel Four, premiered in June 1997. Sarah Kane died in 1999, and is now recognised as one of the most influential voices in modern European theatre.