Sarah Kane's Blasted

Blasted has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre, achieving its iconic status and, indeed, its notoriety, very quickly. Sarah Kane''s suicide in 1999 consolidated a process of singling-out that had begun four years earlier with the ''national outrage'' initiated by the media''s scandalised response to the premiere of Blasted. The brutal content of the play resulte...