Royal Court theatre, London
Kane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast
What must it have felt like to watch Sarah Kane’s final play, whose depressed protagonist plots imminent suicide, knowing that the playwright killed herself the previous year?
First staged in 2000, under the shadow of Kane’s death in 1999, it is back now with the original creative team, including director James Macdonald and its fine three-strong cast of Daniel Evans, Jo McInnes and Madeleine Potter. They play a divided self, it seems, reflecting on illness, shame, self-loathing, love, betrayal, medication culture and – importantly – the prospect of ending it all at exactly 4.48am.
