4.48 Psychosis

Sarah Kane (1971) Wikipedia.orgwikiSarah_Kane : sprak vaak over het feit dat ze zelfmoord wilde plegen. In februari 1999 werd ze opgenomen in het Kinks Collage ziekenhuis te London na het innemen van 158 pillen. Dit overleefde ze maar psychiaters wilden dat ze in het ziekenhuis bleef voor observatie. Toch kon ze ontsnappen. 19 minuten na haar vermissing vonden ze haar overleden hangend in het toilet aan een schoenveter. Kane leed aan depressies met diepe dalen en hoge pieken waarin ze haar teksten schreef. Van haar laatste toneeltekst heeft ze zelf nooit de uitvoering gezien, het is een jaar na haar overlijden opgevoerd in het Royal Court Theater.http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiSarah_Kane: Werk 4.48 Psychosis is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Courts Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 23 June 2000, nearly one and a half years after Kanes death on 20 February 1999. The play has no explicit characters or stage directions this continues the style of her previous production entitled Crave. Stage productions of the play vary greatly, therefore, with between one and several actors in performance the original production featured three actors. According to Kanes friend and fellow-playwright David Greig, the title of the play derives from the time, 4:48 a.m., when Kane, in her depressed state, often woke.[1]The plays main subject is clinical depression, a disorder from which Kane suffered. She killed herself after writing the play, before its initial performance. Rather than claiming that it tries to cover depression as a whole, it might be fairer on the text to say that it is a very subjective presentation of depression, giving the audience an insight into one particular case (or perhaps providing specifics on several individual cases). Contemplation and discussion of suicide are prominent and while there is no strict narrative or timeline, certain issues and events are clearly dealt with: deciding whether to take medication to treat depression, the desires of the depressed mind, the effects and effectiveness of medication, self-harm, suicide and the possible causes of depression. Other themes that run throughout the script, in addition to depression, are those of isolation, dependency, relationships, and love.