Benedict Nightingale, THE TIMES
Rating: *****
I saw TR Warszawa’s revival of Sarah Kane’s play in Poland recently, when one or two people remarked that the actress playing...
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Lyn Gardner, GUARDIAN
Rating: ****
"Watch me vanish. Watch me." We do, hard though it is, in TR Warszawa's staging of Sarah Kane's final play, whose title conjures the viole...
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Sarah Hemming, FINANCIAL TIMES
Rating: ****
Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis is one of the most painful pieces of drama ever written. The playwright, who suffered from clini...
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Neil Dowden, http://www.musicomh.com
Rating: ****
First staged in 2000 two years after her death, the harrowing v...
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Alex Sierz, www.theartsdesk.com
Sarah Kane’s last play is the stuff of legend. Since its first production some 18 m...
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Dominic Cavendish, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
TR Warszawa’s Polish production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis is harrowing. Rating: * * * *
Back by popular demand, Sarah Kane’s la...
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Fiona Mountford, EVENING STANDARD
Rating: ****
Triumph: 4.48 Psychosis
I've insufficient space adequately to praise TR Warszawa's Polish-language production of 4.48 Psych...
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Timothy Ramsden, REVIEWS GATE
However bad you feel, apparently it’s never worse than at 4.48am (GMT and British Summer Time?), when problems seem insoluble, the will to survive near in...
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Miriam Gillinson, CULTURE WARS
Clinical depression, which Sarah Kane navigates with unflinching honesty in her final play 4.48 Psychosis, is a condition one cannot escape (without some serio...
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Coco Hall, www.remotegoat.co.uk
The sense of anticipation is palpable. We know we're in for an unsettling, relentless e...
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David Trennery, http://blogcritics.org/
4.48 Psychosis, at the Barbican Theatre this week in a Polish language ...
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Bob Henderson, PINK PAPER MAGAZINE
Rating: *****
As the loud students next to me were to eager to proclaim, “it’s a suicide note!”. Atleast, that’s the obvious...
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Matt Boothman, BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
4.48 Psychosis is a gift for a director. Kane's text - her last - is more prose poem than script, lacking stage directions or delineated characters: a ne...
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Philip Fisher, THE BRITISH THEATRE GUIDE
It is hard to imagine a production of this exploration into suicidal despair that could be further from James Macdonald's original of the late Sarah ...
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Lynne Walker, THE INDEPENDENT
First performed posthumously at the Royal Court in 2000, Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis - a highlight of the International Festival's programme - gets right to the...
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Junta Sekimori, FEST
There's little doubt that 4.48 Psychosis would be a lesser play if it could be considered independently of its context. Its author Sarah Kane suffered from clin...
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Martin Amis once wrote that suicide is the greatest form of murder. It isn't the killing of the self but rather the killing of all the world. This end of the emotional scale is where Grzegorz Jarzy...
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Robert Dawson Scott, THE TIMES
Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis also prefigures the writer's death, in her case by her own hand. In many ways the play is one big suicide note. But with an electri...
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"Touch me, rescue me, love me watch me vanish" TR Warszawa's phenomenal adaptation of Sarah Kane's moving and extremely powerful 4.48 Psychosis is a frank and all-too-true insight into th...
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Neil Cooper, THE HERALD
Laughter isn't what you expect in Sarah Kane's final play, first performed posthumously in 2000 following the death of this most dynamic of writers the year before. W...
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Stuart Denison, WHATS ON STAGE
[Sarah Kane]'s final work before her suicide, a staging of 4.48 Psychosis usually proves to be an intense experience for any audience, and this production by P...
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Alastair Sooke, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Sarah Kane completed 4.48 Psychosis shortly before she killed herself in 1999. An unflinching journey into depression and extreme mental breakdown, it can...
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Michael Billington, THE GUARDIAN
One of the obvious theatrical attractions of Sarah Kane's final despairing prose-poem is that it can be staged in any number of ways. Because it has no defin...
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Mark Fisher, THE LIST
Having seen Grzegorz Jarzyna's mesmerising production of this Sarah Kane play on the intimate stage of TR Warszawa in Poland, I was concerned the playwright's sad media...
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Joyce McMillan, THE SCOTSMAN
If ever there was a dramatic text that looked more like a score for performance than a conventional play, it's Sarah Kane's extraordinary final work 4:48 Psychos...
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Tomasz Miłkowski, TRYBUNA
At the end the actors do not come back on the stage for applause and the main character (Magdalena Cielecka) simply vanishes. She repeats with almost toneless voice...
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Roman Pawłowski, GAZETA WYBORCZA
A provocative play about a suicide is a test to contemporary theatre. Can we face a tragedy of the humankind?
The Polish première of Sarah Kane...
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Piotr Gruszczyński, TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY
„Cleansed" directed by Warlikowski reached the limits of intimacy. Jarzyna prefers the poetry of text to carnality.
One cannot know ...