Crave
From: Tuesday, 8th May 2001
To: Saturday, 9 June 2001
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Synopsis
Long before I had the chance to adore all of you, I adored the bits of you I could see. Crave charts the disintegration of the human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire. The stories of four disparate characters combine in a touching exploration of the dark, humorous and desperate side of human relationships.
Our Review:
10 May 2001
Crave - Sarah Kane's penultimate play being shown nightly at the Royal Court in tandem with 4.48 Psychosis which the theatre first staged posthumously last year - is like a poem for four voices that are simultaneously dislocated yet connected to each other. Each of this haunting pair of one-acters, individually bracing, becomes cumulatively overwhelming when seen in the context of the other. It is work that is terrifyingly torn straight from the heart.
They are staged in a completely reconfigured Royal Court that enhances the sense of dislocation that the plays are about. Crave, first seen at the Traverse in 1998 as part of the Edinburgh Festival and subsequently transferring to the Court's Theatre Upstairs (when it was in residence at the New Ambassadors), is revived in Vicky Featherstone's original Paines Plough production, but with only Ingrid Craigie remaining from the original company of four.
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Latest User Review
USER: Whatsonstage.com - 6 June 2001:
Four people talking incoherently. A great disappointment after having seen and liked 'Blasted' very much....
Creative
Sarah Kane (Author)
Paines Plough (Company)
Vicky Featherstone (Director)
Georgia Sion (Design)
Nigel J Edwards (Lighting)
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