Crave
From: Thursday, 19th April 2012
To: Saturday, 21 April 2012
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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:
20 April 2012
It is standing room only for the revival of Sarah Kane’s penultimate one-act play in the studio at The Royal Exchange Theatre. The notorious playwright famed for her in-yer-face theatrical style had relinquished her penchant for extreme and violent stage action in favour of a calmer, less distracting backdrop albeit amidst an equally disturbing frenetic prose.
Crave features a dysfunctional line up of characters known only as the letters A, B, C and M as they compete to deliver their experiences of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain and torture in a world from which they cannot escape. Their monologues connect and collide in equal measure in a tyrannical staccato rhythm revealing a litany of rape, rejection, childlessness, depression and breakdown that is at times indomitable and exhausting to follow.
It would be easy to dismiss the harried energy of these two-dimensional characters were it not for the punctuation o...
Creative
Sarah Kane (Author)
Actors Touring Company (in association with The North Wall) (Company)
Ramin Gray (Director)
Lizzie Clachan (Design)
Alex Caplen (Sound)
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