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Sarah Kane

    February 3, 1971 – February 20, 1999

    Sarah Kane was an English playwright whose works grapple with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture, and death. Her writing is characterized by poetic intensity, pared-down language, and an exploration of theatrical form. While her earlier plays often featured stylized violent stage action, her overall body of work offers raw and intense portrayals of the human condition. Kane's powerful, incisive writing continues to resonate with its unflinching examination of profound emotional and psychological landscapes.

    Sarah Kane
    Phaedra's Love
    Cleansed
    Crave
    4.48 Psychosis
    Complete plays. Blasted ; Phaedra's love ; Cleansed ; Crave ; 4.48 Psychosis ; Skin
    Vasily Kandinsky
    • 2016

      Vasily Kandinsky

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      This book presents Vasily Kandinsky s major paintings from all phases of his artistic career and celebrates the artist and his groundbreaking work. This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky's brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world's leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; his attraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; the formation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music on his painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work in Paris. The book s design allows for a thorough examination of Kandinsky s most important works in all their extraordinary detail. Accessible, impeccably researched, and wide-ranging, this important volume offers an indispensable overview of the artist s seminal works and a tribute to the beauty and power of Kandinsky s vision

      Vasily Kandinsky
    • 2009

      Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil war was simply an attempt to shock audiences. The questions raised in this play about violence are at the heart of Kane's writing.

      Blasted
    • 2008

      Phaedra's Love

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.7(1912)Add rating

      First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah KaneSarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus.

      Phaedra's Love
    • 2006

      Cleansed

      • 44 pages
      • 2 hours of reading
      3.8(1677)Add rating

      This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premièred at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998A provocative play from the notorious author of Blasted, which probes the nightmarish world of twenty-somethings coming to grips with sexuality, social ostracism and the effects of drugs. Kane's first play Blasted caused major controversy, furore and acclaim amongst critics and throughout the theatre world

      Cleansed
    • 2006

      4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters are named, and even their number is unspecified. It could be a journey through one person's mind, or an interview between a doctor and his patient.

      4.48 Psychosis
    • 2001
    • 1998

      Crave

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      4.1(1939)Add rating

      Exploring the fragility of the human psyche, the narrative delves into themes of love, loss, and desire within an unnamed city where voices and images emerge. As the protagonist grapples with these intense emotions, the story captures the gradual unraveling of their mind, offering a poignant reflection on the complexities of emotional experiences.

      Crave