Crave Sarah Kane Script

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Apr 5 2019

Crave, the play I chose to direct as my thesis final project, constitutes a complex and crude portrait of our time, a moment in history marked by violence and individualism. These themes permeate the whole script, with its experimental and poetic style constitutes a challenge at the moment of staging it.

  1. Crave Synopsis: A downtrodden photographer, haunted by the urban violence and decay around him, retreats into an inner world of dark fantasies. Those dangerous visions explode in reality with deadly consequences when his intoxicating new relationship with a beautiful young woman goes sour.
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CRAVE by Sarah Kane

Samantha Jones

Samantha is The Other Room's 2018/19 Trainee Director and director of CRAVE by Sarah Kane.

'Sarah Kane declared “I write the truth and it kills me”. Never was there a playwright that inspired me down to my very bones than Sarah Kane. Selecting Crave as Yasmin and I’s showcase, a play that has a cyclical and blisteringly raw life, is perfect, and I am honoured to tell this story with Yasmin, a producer that will fly high with her incredible work ethic and talent. I can’t wait to see what else we work on in the future together.

We were keen from the outset to choose a piece that tested us creatively, technically and emotionally, and to create a space for the actors that was open, honest, exploratory and safe. I never set out to be captain of the ship, I was determined to work collaboratively, bringing in incredible people such as Nerida Bradley as Assistant Director to enhance our Kane expertise and to share her warm presence and kindness.

Crave allows us to explore and question humanity along its glorious spectrum, from the extreme to the light. Written in a TS Eliot style beat poem, Kane abstains from using punctuation, strict form, even names so not to influence us as the audience, allowing us to soak up what we should/need from this pure piece of writing. On watching Crave, we hope we create a space that allows you to ask questions and explore your version of humanity. Nothing major.

I am forever grateful to The Other Room for this opportunity to play with exceptional talent and text. I hope we do you proud.'


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Yasmin Williams

Yasmin is The Other Room's 2018/19 Trainee Producer and producer of CRAVE by Sarah Kane.

“This production has given us the freedom to make the work we are passionate about, to take risks when doing so and to be unforgivingly brave. As is the way of The Other Room.

Sam and I have not only developed as practitioners during our year-long placement as Trainees under TOR’s Professional Pathway Programme, but have been encouraged and empowered to run with our own ideas and instincts, and to continue to challenge ourselves. The Professional Pathway Programme has ensured we’re constantly defining and redefining the work we want to make, the artists we have to be, and the things we must do so that the work we make achieves what it needs to.

I am so lucky to be working alongside the creative brilliance of Sam, a Director with an abundance of empathy and drive. Sam and I have decided that just because our Traineeships are coming to an end, we will still want to collaborate together, a relationship which wouldn’t have formed without TOR’s Professional Pathway Programme.

Crave is a beautiful beast of a script which tears apart our existence and suffering, with great depth, and is unapologetic in its heavily emotive poetry. The honesty with which Kane saw the world is not something mirrored elsewhere. There seemed no better script to round off our Traineeship at TOR, a Traineeship which has been so much about remembering how important it is to ‘dare’. Dare to make work which is truthful, raw and bravely presents its audience with a number of challenging questions and feelings.”


Dan Jones

Current Artistic Director of The Other Room, former Trainee Director and founder of the Professional Pathway Programme.

“The Other Room has always been a small space where young artists can take big risks. It is our mission to discover and nurture exceptional talent here in Wales, and The Professional Pathways Programme is a big part of that. And here we are, approaching the final phase of the programmes first year, reviving a Kane piece, the playwright that marked the bold arrival of the theatre back in 2015. This is a special moment for all of us here at TOR. I would like express immense gratitude to our partners (RWCMD and Theatr Clwyd), our supporters (Arts Council Wales and Creu Cymru) and, most of all, to our young company embarking on this extraordinarily brave journey.

Watch this space everyone!'

A grandfather takes his granddaughter into the car and pulls his pants down and it pops out- big and purple;she rears in fright and cries. The father sitting behind says, 'she has never reacted liked this before'.
Crave, the play by Sarah Kane, by Theatre Nisha, presents four characters, or perhaps four aspects of human nature all of which are singly, overwhelmingly traumatized by life. It reveals a litany of rape, infidelity, loneliness, familial rejection and childlessness. The characters are embittered and dismayed by an existence over which they have no control.
Thus, read the handout that we were given before we entered the hall in Alliance Francais to watch the play. About 10 of us went to watch the play on friday and came back, some confused, some disappointed. The play is about 4 people and how they are voicing out their inner most thoughts and emotions. It was a neatly done set with only black and white in every element of the set,though I am not sure why that was done; the two men on stage in complete black and the two women in complete white, the floor covered with white and all the walls being black. The play talks about the taboos of everyday life like paedophiles and rape and tries to show the helplessness of individuals under these circumstances, their cries of agony, their moans of distress. It depicts a scene where a grandchild comes home and finds his grandmother in the lap of another man. Its an intense play where it tries to depict the world in all its shades. However the performance did not live up to the play, with some unusually long pauses in places and with the accent of some of the cast being too Indian when it was clear that the play is set in a foreign land, most likely,the US, what with its references to the little Vietnamese girlwho was running for cover with her back burning because of the Napalm bombing with a US fighter jet in the background. The play stood only on the strength of its script with various interesting lines, though disconnected, like
It almost got me thinking about Hank Rearden in Atlas Shruggedand his belief that he was what his work was.
It talks about the definitive role of the centre in the geometry of the circle where there is no chicken and egg dilemma as to who came first as it was the centre that came first and then the circle was formed.

Crave By Sarah Kane Script

I had to fake orgasms before but now I have to fake not having an orgasm
This and a variety of other interesting lines kept the audience occupied and then suddenly it ended, abruptly with a police cordon drawn across the stage. The abruptness left a lot to be desired.
I suddenly felt ecstatic and then realised that it was only the absence of grief

Crave Sarah Kane Script

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Crave Sarah Kane Script

Footnote: It has been stated here that the play is supposed to be American however it has been brought to my knowledge that its not and its actually British. The error is regretted.