Table of Contents

Introduction
1. 'This disgusting feast of filth': Blasted
2. 'If there could have been more moments like these': Phaedra's Love
3. 'This sensible hell': Cleansed
4. 'Only love can save me and love has destroyed me': Crave
5. 'Remember the light and believe in the light': 4.48 Psychosis
6. Converstation with James Macdonald
7. Conversation with Vicky Featherstone
8. Converstation with Nils Tabert
9. Conversation with Mel Kenyon
10. Conversation with Phyllis Nagy
11. Conversation with Kate Ashfield
12. Conversation with Daniel Evans
13. Conversation with Stuart McQuarrie
14. Edward Bond: Sarah Kane and theatre
Select Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Graham Saunders is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at Coventry University

Reviews

'This is a pioneering book that will have a marked influence of all subsequent Sarah Kane studies. Graham Saunders has spoken to directors, actors and others who worked with her and knew her intimately. You can hear the rustle of draft scripts, feet in rehearsal rooms, the coffee cups of students discussing late into the night. It is astonishing to read such intimate accounts of a woman who became a public icon in her short life... This is not a sycophantic book, its judgements are balanced - and that makes us realise all the more what we have lost. It was one little death, but theatre will need a crowd of brilliant writers to take her place - if even then.' Edward Bond