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Blasted
Contributor(s): Kane, Sarah (Author), Urban, Ken (Editor), Megson, Chris (Editor)
ISBN: 1408103850     ISBN-13: 9781408103852
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE:   $14.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.914
LCCN: 2011487006
Series: Methuen Drama Student Editions
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.25 lbs) 128 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

This Student Edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play Blasted features expert and helpful annotation and is an accessible guide for anyone studying or performing the play. This includes a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading, questions for further study and a review of performance history.

In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted sent shockwaves throughout the theatrical world. Making front-page headlines, the play outraged critics with its depiction of rape, torture and violence in civil war. However, from being roundly condemned by the critics ('this disgusting feast of filth' Daily Mail), the play is now considered a seminal work of European theatre and has defined an entire era of stage writing.

Blasted's canonical status reflects the raw beauty and terror of Kane's writing. Probing the brutality people inflict upon one another, the suffering and violation, the play also looks at the role of love and the redemption it offers. Unafraid to delve into darkness, this is a provocative, fragmenting piece full of significance and power.


Contributor Bio(s): Megson, Chris: - CHRIS MEGSON is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK. His recent publications include The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays (2010); his book on The Seventies, for 'Methuen's Decades of Modern British Playwrighting' series, is forthcoming in 2012. He has published widely on British theatre culture since 1968 and documentary/Tribunal theatre.