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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1971
- Died
- 1999
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Arurim
- Meṭoharim
- אהבתה של פדרה [תכניה]
- Ahavatah shel Pedrah
- 4.48 psychose
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Film & TV
Brentwood, Essex, England, UK
Sarah Kane was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that 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 extreme and violent stage action.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1971-02-03 ) 3 February 1971, Brentwood, Essex , England
- Died
- 20 February 1999 (1999-02-20) (aged 28), Camberwell , London, England
- Cause of death
- Suicide by hanging
- Occupation
- Playwright
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- University of Bristol (BA), University of Birmingham (MA)
- Literary movement
- In-yer-face theatre
- Notable works
- Blasted (1995) Skin (1995) Phaedra's Love (1996) Crave (1998) 4.48 Psychosis (2000)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sarah
- Family name
- Kane
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Brentwood
- Place of death
- King's College Hospital
- Occupation
- author
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Europe Theatre Prize
- Notable work
- 4.48 Psychosis
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- date of birth
- 1971-02-03
- date of death
- 1999-02-20
- manner of death
- Suicide
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- Commons category
- Sarah Kane
- name in native language
- Sarah Kane
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- sexual orientation
- non-heterosexuality
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Encyclopedic overview
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright. She is known for her plays that 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 extreme and violent stage action.
Kane herself and scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, have identified some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. The critic Aleks Sierz saw her work as part of a confrontational style and sensibility of drama termed "in-yer-face theatre". Sierz originally called Kane "the quintessential in-yer-face writer of the [1990s]" but later remarked in 2009 that although he initially "thought she was very typical of the new writing of the middle 1990s", "[t]he further we get away from that in time, the more un-typical she seems to be".
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