Containing no characters, stage directions or specified setting, 4:48 Psychosis is as unique as it is harrowing. Poetic, angry, full of love and frustration and darkly humorous this extraordinary work explores parts of the mind very few of us ever experience but from which some can never escape.
Hailed as the young playwright of her generation Sarah Kane lays her soul bare as she disintegrates before you and sheds light on the darkness and struggle of mental illness. The Guardian said, "Sarah Kane wrote simply and starkly about the world she saw around her... a mature and vividly theatrical response to the pain of living”. In her final note to her agent regarding 4:48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane wrote "Do with it what you will, just remember — writing it killed me".
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