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Cleansed
Sign in to saveCleansed is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London. The play is set in a university which (according to the blurb of the published script) is operating as "an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables" where "a group of inmates try to save themselves through love" while under the rule of the sadistic Tinker. When the play premiered at the Royal Court in April 1998, Kane played the part of Grace for the last three performances because of an injury that the original actress suffered.
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- Author
- Ilan Pappé
- First published
- 2006
- Editions
- 15
- Subjects
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949, Forced migration, Arab-Israeli conflict, Emigration and immigration, Palestinian Arab Refugees, Guerre israélo-arabe, 1948-1949, Conflit israélo-arabe, HISTORY
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- title
- Cleansed
- date of first performance
- 1998-04-30
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21 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Development
- Staging
- Stage directions
- Sarah Kane's performance as Grace
- Initial reception
- Audience response
- Cast and characters
- Production history
- London (1998)
- Hamburg (1998)
- Poland (2001)
- London Revival (2005)
- London Revival (2016)
- Sydney (2022)
- London Revival (2026)
- Interpretations and analysis
- Dream interpretation
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Cleansed is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London. The play is set in a university which (according to the blurb of the published script) is operating as "an institution designed to rid society of its undesirables" where "a group of inmates try to save themselves through love" while under the rule of the sadistic Tinker. When the play premiered at the Royal Court in April 1998, Kane played the part of Grace for the last three performances because of an injury that the original actress suffered.
It is sometimes claimed that Tinker was named after the theatre critic for British newspaper The Daily Mail, Jack Tinker, whose review of Kane's first play Blasted was headlined "this disgusting feast of filth", but there does not appear to be any evidence of Kane confirming this.