Winter 2016: Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

Winter 2016: Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis: Verena Kandler's clips

Cockroach © Verena Kandler, AnglistenTheater

Jellyfish © Verena Kandler, AnglistenTheater

Knife © Verena Kandler, AnglistenTheater

Verena Kandler designed a series of clips for the AnglistenTheater’s production of 4.48 Psychosis, which were projected on a screen during scene changes. Here are four of these clips. The first of these is also a detail from the poster.

Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis: Information

Read the emag review of the AnglistenTheater’s production of 4.48 Psychosis.
Read the campus article on the AnglistenTheater’s production of 4.48 Psychosis.
Take a look at our programme.
Listen to Bettina Auerswald’s sound tracks Plain, Love, Hatch Opens, Ghost.

Winter 2016:

Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis

Living in Pain: Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis was premiered on June 23, 2000, at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Sixteen months earlier, Kane had completed the script shortly before she took her own life by hanging herself by her shoelaces in a bathroom at King’s College Hospital in London at the age of only twenty-eight. Since then many critics have been tempted to view the play as a kind of ‘suicide note.’ We will never know for sure. Her fellow playwright and personal friend David Greig pointed out that the play’s title related to 4:48 a.m., the time Sarah Kane used to wake in the morning during her severest depression. ...

(from Martin Middeke’s contribution to the programme – read the full text here)