October 9, 2012
\nAdelaide
\nTheatre<\/p>\n
Blasted
\nby Sarah Kane
\nState Theatre Company
\nSpace Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
\nOctober 8. Tickets $ 25 – $ 35
\nBookings : BASS 131 246
\nUntil October 13.<\/p>\n
It is seventeen years since the twenty-something playwright, Sarah Kane detonated her play Blasted at London\u2019s Royal Court Theatre. It caused an uproar then, and still disturbs and confronts even internet-jaded audiences now. <\/p>\n
Director Netta Yashchin has a challenge with this unruly, iconoclastic text but with Wendy Todd\u2019s increasingly ruined d\u00e9cor, Mark Pennington\u2019s blitzkrieg lighting and Stuart Day\u2019s haunting soundscape, the bell tolls for each of the play\u2019s defeated characters. Ian and Cate (the excellent Patrick Graham and Anni Lindner) book into a Leeds hotel for a night of listless depravity. Then things escalate when the Soldier (Mark Saturno), in full combat kit, literally brings a war into the room. <\/p>\n
Blasted is a serious study of the ubiquity of cruelty and violence but, philosophically and emotionally, it has a narrow focus. Sarah Kane\u2019s plays are now described as part of the 90s \u201cIn-Yer-Face\u201d theatre movement, but the pervading pessimism in Blasted is more like in yer worst nightmare. <\/p>\n
Murray Bramwell<\/p>\n
Out and About, The Australian, October 10, 2012, p.16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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