27 Facts About Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

Sarah Kane's published work consists of five plays, the short film Skin, and two newspaper articles for The Guardian.

Sarah Kane praised Jeremy Weller's Mad as "the one piece of theatre that changed my life".

Sarah Kane struggled with severe depression for many years and was twice voluntarily admitted to the Maudsley Hospital in London.

Sarah Kane was then taken to London's King's College Hospital where she was resuscitated and assessed by two psychiatrists.

Sarah Kane was admitted to the Brunel ward of the King's College Hospital, which was a general ward and not a psychiatric wing.

Sarah Kane told Kenyon that her attempted suicide by overdose had been unsuccessful because she had eaten pizza.

Sarah Kane had hung herself by her neck with her own shoelaces from the hook on the inside of the toilet door.

Dr Tunstall wrote in his notes that Sarah Kane did not require one-to-one care from a psychiatric nurse.

Sarah Kane was that child, and where some reined her back, others let her go, even encouraged her.

Sarah Kane's means to confront the implacable are death, a lavatory and shoelaces.

Sarah Kane was the most gifted dramatist of her generation.

Sarah Kane saw no future for theatre and so none for herself.

Sarah Kane's plays present the need for such a theatre.

Sarah Kane originally wanted to be a poet, but decided that she was unable to convey her thoughts and feelings through poetry.

Sarah Kane wrote the first two scenes while a student in Birmingham, where they were given a public performance.

The agent Mel Kenyon was in the audience and subsequently represented Sarah Kane, suggesting she should show her work to the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Sarah Kane admired Bond's work, and he in turn publicly defended Sarah Kane's play and talent.

The critic Ken Urban says that "for Sarah Kane, hell is not metaphysical: it is hyperreal, reality magnified".

Sarah Kane was then commissioned by the Gate Theatre, London, to write a play inspired by a classic text.

Sarah Kane reversed classical tradition by showing, rather than describing, violent action on stage.

The play was presented at the National Theatre in London in 2016, the first time any of Sarah Kane's work had been performed there.

Sarah Kane had written of her admiration for Crimp's formal innovations.

At the time, Sarah Kane regarded it as the "most despairing" of her plays, written when she had lost "faith in love".

In November 2010, the theatre critic Ben Brantley of the New York Times described the SoHo Rep's "shattering production" of Sarah Kane's Blasted as "one of the most important New York premieres of the decade".

Sarah Kane believed passionately that form ought to be expressive and carry meaning as powerfully as the story of a play.

In Ukraine, director Roza Sarkisyan chose to produce an excerpt of one of Sarah Kane's plays for the British Council in 2017, and cites Sarah Kane as an inspiration.