Sarah Kane

By Jxlopez

  • Birthday

    February 3rd, 1971

  • known for

    English playwright who is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, and death

  • Controversial

    Sarah Kane was a controversial playwright

  • University

    attended Shenfield High School she studied drama at Bristol University, graduating in 1992, and went on to take an MA course in play writing at the University of Birmingham, led by the playwright David Edgar

  • first play

    Blasted is the first play by the British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London.

  • third play

    Cleansed is the third play by the English playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs in London

  • Crave

    Crave is a one-act play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1998 by the theatre company Paines Plough

  • Beginning of Depression

    Sarah Kane entered a manic depression that she did not want to take anti depressants for she believed that the mental pain from the depression also allowed her to work better

  • Attempt

    , Kane in her Brixton flat attempted suicide by taking 50 sleeping pills and over 150 antidepressant tablets.

  • Suicide

    Sarah Kane was found in the hospital after she hung herself