blasted
Opening Night: January 1, 1970
Closing: January 1, 2009
Theater: Soho Repertory
Acknowledged as the most provocative and influential British playwright of her generation, in her landmark play Blasted, Sarah Kane forges a potent theatrical vision of destruction, collapse, and ultimately, redemption and love.
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October 10, 2008
There’s bleak, and then there’s “Blasted.” Plays don’t come any darker or harsher than the astounding drama with which the 23-year-old Sarah Kane made her London debut at the Royal Court Theater in 1995. Reviewers then reacted with the anger and astonishment their Victorian predecessors displayed when faced with the scandal of Ibsen’s “Ghosts.” Wrote one critic, “Until last night I thought I was immune from shock in any theater.” Others simply called it “vile” and compared it to “having your whole head held down in a bucket of offal.
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