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October 14, 2012

Blasted (Brief)

October 9, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Blasted
by Sarah Kane
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 35
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 13.

It is seventeen years since the twenty-something playwright, Sarah Kane detonated her play Blasted at London’s Royal Court Theatre. It caused an uproar then, and still disturbs and confronts even internet-jaded audiences now.

Director Netta Yashchin has a challenge with this unruly, iconoclastic text but with Wendy …

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Blasted (extended)

October 14, 2012
Adelaide
Theatre

Blasted
by Sarah Kane
State Theatre Company
Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
October 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 35
Bookings : BASS 131 246
Until October 13.

It was British critic, Alex Sierz who put a name to the angry, convulsive, confrontational new theatre emergent in the UK in the 1990’s. He called it “In-Yer-Face” theatre and it described, among many, the work of Mark Ravenhill, Anthony Neilson and Sarah Kane. Except that her …

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