4.48 Psychosis (Methuen Modern Plays)

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A great deal of ink has been spilled on Kane’s too-short life and death, and not nearly enough on the story of the play itself. Replete with shocking confessions, piercing monologues and raw visuals, there aren’t any positive takeaways from the one-hour-12-minute performance to be honest. There’d been these tabloid frenzies over her early plays, and we wanted this play to be received as a play. One 2009 revival even featured an actor who, with her boyish features and close-cropped hair, looked unnervingly like Kane herself: it was theatre as raw autobiography, a Sylvia Plath-like howl into the abyss.

deserves to be seen as the astonishing piece of theatre it is – as playful as it is confessional, simultaneously precise and improvisatory, roaring with life and wit and energy as it gazes unblinkingly at depression and death. The controversy began over Blasted, Kane’s first play presented at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1995.

Psychosis at The Theatre Les Bouffes Du Nord in Paris (2005), Belarus Free Theatre in Minsk (2005), KUFER theatre in Croatia (2005.

The opera was awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society for Best Large Scale Composition 2017, a British Composer Award for Best Stage Work 2017, a UK Theatre Award for Best Opera 2016 and it was shortlisted for an Olivier Award for Best Opera in 2017 and a Southbank Award for Best Opera in 2017.The easiest thing to say is that it is derived from the Greek word for "actor" – someone who pretends that they are something that they are not. In February 1999, she killed herself at King’s College hospital, south London, three days after a previous suicide attempt.