Crave (play)

Greed is the fourth play of the British playwright Sarah Kane. It was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse Theatre in 1998.

Action

Dramatis personae, the four parts A, B, C, and M, whose identities Kane is no further information. In interviews, however, it stated the name of the figures; here, A is author or Aleister Crowley, Antichrist and asshole, B for Boy, that boy, M for Mother / Mother and Child for C / child. In the play, it remains open whether actually four different persons or for example, the thoughts of only one person can speak. They focus in coherent sentences often do not love and its lusts and desires. Kane's language is experiencing a very dense imagery and poetry. Also autobiographical elements can be seen - the very detailed love letter from A to an unnamed person is full of details and incidents that give the impression of truthfulness. All voices articulate their respective strong desires for solution and recovery - it remains open whether this can be done through love or death. The piece ends with a crash into the light, which can be the fulfillment of desire for love how after death accordingly.

Form

The form and content of greed are difficult to separate because of the fact that there are neither persons acting an actual plot. The piece is supported by the figurative language and its rhythm. Text does not follow logically comprehensible to each other, but rather complement each other to a concert of the four voices. Kane himself stated that they depended more writing by greed than by the logical sequence of sentences or sentence fragments from the rhythm. The piece was a musical and thereby moving experience for them. Nevertheless, it was the idea of a radio play of greed averse, as she looked at the presence of people on the stage as essential.

Reactions

Greed was celebrated after the premiere of the criticism. The departure from naturalism was welcomed back to poetry, thereby facilitating access to the piece according to critics. The musical effect of the text on the stage was praised. The four votes were represented by a younger man and a younger woman and a man and a middle-aged woman. Among viewers outweighed the impression that it was indeed the four voices of a person.

Swell

• Discussion of the performance of greed in Leipzig
• Meeting of greed by Les Gutman in CurtainUp Theatre Magazine (English )
• Brocher, Corinna and Tabert, Nils: Sarah Kane. All pieces. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, 2002. ISBN 3499231387
• Reviews of Sarah Kane in pearl

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• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Drama