Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kanewas an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself, as well as scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, identify some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. The critic Aleks Sierz has...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 February 1971
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Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.
Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after
If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.
There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
They will love me for that which destroys me.
No one survives life.
the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop
You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be okay.
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.
No boy is worth crying over, and the one who is won't make you cry.