Title:
Love me or kill me : Sarah Kane and the theatre of extremes
Author:
Saunders, Graham, 1965-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
Physical Description:
xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol031/2002020738.htmlPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002020738.html
ISBN:
9780719059551
9780719059568
Format :
Book
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Summary
Summary
Love Me or Kill Me is the first study of Sarah Kane, the most significant British dramatist in post-war theater. It covers all of Kane's major plays and productions, contains hitherto unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death. Locating the main dramatic sources and features of her work as well as centralizing her place within the 'new wave' of emergent British dramatists in the 1990's, Graham Saunders provides an introduction for those familiar and unfamiliar with her work.
Author Notes
Graham Saunders is Lecturer in Theater Studies at the University of the West of England.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part I The plays | |
| 2 'This disgusting feast of filth': Blasted | p. 37 |
| 3 'If there could have been more moments like this': Phaedra's Love | p. 71 |
| 4 'This sensible hell': Cleansed | p. 86 |
| 5 'Only love can save me and love has destroyed me': Crave | p. 100 |
| 6 'Remember the light and believe in the light': 4.48 Psychosis | p. 109 |
| Part II Conversations | |
| 7 Conversation with James Macdonald | p. 121 |
| 8 Conversation with Vicky Featherstone | p. 128 |
| 9 Conversation with Nils Tabert | p. 134 |
| 10 Conversation with Mel Kenyon | p. 143 |
| 11 Conversation with Phyllis Nagy | p. 154 |
| 12 Conversation with Kate Ashfield | p. 163 |
| 13 Conversation with Daniel Evans | p. 168 |
| 14 Conversation with Stuart McQuarrie | p. 180 |
| Afterword: Sarah Kane and theatre | p. 189 |
| Select bibliography | p. 193 |
| Index | p. 199 |