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Blasted
by
Sarah Kane
Blasted is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 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 wassimplyan attempt to shock audiences. The questions raised in this
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
March 29th 2001
by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
(first published October 21st 1999)
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وأخيرا لقيتها
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لعشاق الكاتبة البريطانية سارة كين
نسخة من المسرحية باللغة الإنجليزية
~شكر خاص للصديق~
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her first play. about power and abuse and rape and torture and the resistance that holds onto kindness and love and gestures and expressions of tenderness in the face of the most violating experiences as the way to hold onto humanity and meaning. it's very graphic, what she is saying is powerful and radical.
she is talking about connections between emotional abuse and physical and sexual abuse. cate and ian's relationship shifts from emotional abuse to rape. it's a movement where one lays the fou...more
she is talking about connections between emotional abuse and physical and sexual abuse. cate and ian's relationship shifts from emotional abuse to rape. it's a movement where one lays the fou...more
I used to work in the library of a certain prestigious drama school. One of the acting students told me about this play and I picked it up during my lunch break. I can still remember the paralysing horror I felt at that one particular scene; my mouth literally dropped open and I had to put the book down for a spell to wrap my head around what I'd just read. Relentlessly brutal, ugly, and confronting - it's a satire, right? It's a satire, just like American Psycho. Except not really, because what...more
When the world is turned inside out by trauma, there rises a terrible grave for buried feelings. Figures warp and one's outlook on external life is also cast by the sinister half-light of an apocalyptic horror show, gleaming with the all-too-ready tranfusion by eager donors with vampiric intentions. And as we once again close the blinds upon this play, may we never meet again what an insane rage populated into a new human--a stranger burying a body in our very own garden...a spectre we once trus...more
I chose not to give a rating to this play because it is not something you can just simply hate or like. True, I never want to see this being performed on stage because I don't think I would be able to stand it but at the same time, it is so raw that the message it imparts will have you thinking hours after you are done reading it. This play will haunt you long after you have read it. This is not something that I would have if I hadn't had for school but now that I have, I don't regret it. I don'...more
Sarah Kane's first full-length play was a truly shocking experience when I read it. I hadn't been expecting the insane levels of graphic, vicious and uncompromising violence, not to mention the painful scenes of emotional and mental anguish and abuse, but I cannot deny that I am glad I did experience this because Kane's writing and the themes about violence at the heart of the play have resonated with me ever since.
A Leeds hotel room. A man, Ian, meets his much younger and naive ex-girlfriend, C...more
A Leeds hotel room. A man, Ian, meets his much younger and naive ex-girlfriend, C...more
Oh man, Sarah Kane. Oh man. I am really sorry you are dead because you were a brilliant writer, but I'm kind of glad I don't have to read more than five of your plays, because Blasted just made me very nearly sick.
Post-apocalyptic, in a way. But, unfortunately, quite fathomable as a vision of what might happen in a nation taken over by terrorists. And I'm not talking Al-Quida or anything that we are warned about by politicians. And probably nothing that could actually happen in the "Western" wor...more
Post-apocalyptic, in a way. But, unfortunately, quite fathomable as a vision of what might happen in a nation taken over by terrorists. And I'm not talking Al-Quida or anything that we are warned about by politicians. And probably nothing that could actually happen in the "Western" wor...more
This was - woah. Bizarre and shocking and really graphic. Up til now, only one book has ever made me sick to my stomach, and that was American Psycho. Today, this became the second work to make me have to put it down and take a few deep breaths. It's a play in five scenes that begins in a hotel room, sort of examining gender relations and sexual politics, and then suddenly magnifies those issues (rape, control, violence, gender relations, sexual favors) to global proportion by turning the hotel...more
This one thoroughly confused and disturbed me, and I'm sure that was the point. I'm just baffled, and still reeling a bit - it is certainly one of the most gratuitously intense works I've ever read, and I can't even imagine what it would take to undertake it as a production. It's shocking and bizarre and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it.
Be prepared: this play is among the most graphic ever written. It is not something to be read before bedtime, nor is it a play to be dismissed as mere sadism. Reading this play carefully and with delicate concern is worth it.
Still, no matter how one reads it, there's one question remaining at the end: how could anyone stage this?
Still, no matter how one reads it, there's one question remaining at the end: how could anyone stage this?
Shocking and disgusting? Oh yes. Did I LIKE it? No. Did it make me think? Yes. If all you get from this play is, "a lot of really crappy stuff happened", you might want to examine yourself a bit. Yes, it's disgusting but that doesn't mean the work is trash. Why does Kane choose to show only the simulated rape of Cate, but not the actual rape and probable sodomy, when the sodomy of Ian is performed? This play is not just about how much awful stuff one can shove into 50 some pages. There absolutel...more
Premessa: non sono una grande lettrice di testi teatrali.
Sarò sempliciotta io, ma quando la piega degli eventi dal drammatico passa al sensazionalistico, tendo a proseguire la lettura in maniera fredda, distaccata.
E il cannibalismo sul neonato morto suonava decisamente sensazionalistico.
Sarò sempliciotta io, ma quando la piega degli eventi dal drammatico passa al sensazionalistico, tendo a proseguire la lettura in maniera fredda, distaccata.
E il cannibalismo sul neonato morto suonava decisamente sensazionalistico.
It's hard to rate Blasted as "really liked it" because this is not the kind of material any human could possibly like or enjoy reading. But it's an incredible play, and it forces you to experience and think, in the most extreme physical/bodily terms, of war, torture, and sexuality.
"I CAN SHOCK YOU!!!!!!"
That's very nice, Ms. Kane. Would you care to do anything meaningful with that shock?
"I CAN SHOCK YOU!!!!!!"
No? Then you're really not offering anything we couldn't find in Two Girls One Cup, are you?
That's very nice, Ms. Kane. Would you care to do anything meaningful with that shock?
"I CAN SHOCK YOU!!!!!!"
No? Then you're really not offering anything we couldn't find in Two Girls One Cup, are you?
Not sure I would recommend this one. A lot of crudity, but that is famously her style. Brutal, vicious examination of base human behavior. Explores the violent, and disturbing aspects of being a human. Peek your interest?
I really really didn't like this play. It was just extremely unpleasant and unlikable. Perhaps I am too thick to understand a 'deeper meaning' here, but it seemed like a good deal of gratuitous violence to no real end.
If you recommend this book to a friend or especially if you assign this play to a class, for the love of all that is pretty and clean, WARN PEOPLE that there is serious RAPE content in it. TRIGGER WARNING!!!
Revolting. And I am not a prudish person. I just think that there are more succinct and thoughtful ways of saying that the world is a nightmarish place. A disturbed piece from a disturbed person.
Changed the whole way I think about theatre, and inspired me to become a playwright. Sarah Kane is my favorite playwright.
This is a must read for people who love theatre or no nothing about it.
This is a must read for people who love theatre or no nothing about it.
There's something seriously damaging about reading this, but I suspect that the experience of merely reading this play is incomparable to seeing it performed.
Scariest play I've ever read...this is like your worst ten nightmares all rolled into one. We've got mental illness, civil war, a man raping a woman, a woman biting a man's penis, a man eating a baby, a man shooting himself, starving to death, etc. etc.
Sounds good, eh? I had to read it for class!!
Sounds good, eh? I had to read it for class!!
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Gruesome.
Are men and women capable of such atrocity? Apparently and only God knows why.
Are men and women capable of such atrocity? Apparently and only God knows why.
This is probably the most shocking and disgusting piece of literature I've read in my life so far.
This play is terrifying. (Who says that about a play?)
A masterpiece of brevity and horror.
Ugh. That was awful.
Beautiful, I think.
damn.
Wow.
Maybe Sarah Kane just isn't my cup of tea. While showcasing a marvelous theatrical imagination and gruesome images/juxstapositions that make one ask, "What the hell is going on here?" (in a good way), I just felt beaten over the head by the play's meesage. My tastes tend to run more subtle than Ms. Kane's work, so when her story doesn't add up to much more than a polemical end, I appreciate her passion more than her storytelling. Just one gal's opinion.
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Sarah Kane was 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 stylized violent stage action. Kane's life was brought to a premature end when she committed suicide at Lon...more
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