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Phaedra's Love - Paperback

by Sarah Kane
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sarah KaneSeries:Modern PlaysPublish date:2008-09-19Pages:48
Language:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9780413771124ISBN-10:413771121UPC:9780413771124Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.1499Product ID:SCSRPEG5AE

First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane


Sarah 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.Kane's achievement is to have humanised the antics of the pounding royals. Her sulphurous dialgoue is full of reeking toughness' Evening Standard
'Sarah Kane's writing is both daring and accomplished' Time Out
'Pure theatre or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous' Observer
'delivered with punch and laced with black humour' Financial Times
Language:EnglishPublisher:Methuen DramaISBN-13:9780413771124ISBN-10:413771121UPC:9780413771124Book Category:DramaBook Subcategory:EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.1499Product ID:SCSRPEG5AE

Sarah Kane was born in 1971. Her first play, Blasted, was produced at the Royal Court Theatre Upstai rs in 1995. Her second play, Phaedra's Love, was produced at the Gate Theatre in 1996. In April 1998, Cleansed was produced at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, and in September 1998, Crave was prod uced at Paines Plough and Bright Ltd at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Her last play, 4.48 Psychos is, premiered at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in June 2000. Her short film, Skin, produc ed by British Screen/Channel Four, premiered in June 1997. Sarah Kane died in 1999.


Publisher: Methuen Drama

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