Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kanewas an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself, as well as scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, identify some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. The critic Aleks Sierz has...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 February 1971
Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.
I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.
Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.
I am the beast at the end of the rope.