Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis av Glenn D'Cruz

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<P>"Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls" ¿ <EM>4.48 Psychosis</EM></P><P></P><P>How on earth do you award aesthetic points to a 75-minute suicide note? The question comes from a review of <EM>4.48 Psychosis</EM>¿ inaugural production, the year after Sarah Kane took her own life, but this book explores the ways in which it misses the point. Kane¿s final play is much more than a bizarre farewell to mortality. It¿s a work best understood by approaching it first and foremost as theatre ¿ as a singular component in a theatrical assemblage of bodies, voices, light and energy. The play finds an unexpectedly close fit in the established traditions of modern drama and the practices of postdramatic theatre.</P><P></P><P>Glenn D¿Cruz explores this theatrical angle through a number of exemplary professional and student productions with a focus on the staging of the play by the Belarus Free Theatre (2005) and Melbourne¿s Red Stitch Theatre (2007). </P><P></P>