Set in a university that has been converted into a concentration camp and place of torture (surely an ironic joke about our higher education system), the play has four storylines. In the first, Grace, ...

As audience members are escorted from the latest revival of Sarah Kane’s play Cleansed in London this week after fainting in the aisles, is there more at play than just weak stomachs? There is a ...

Graphic scenes in stage revival of Sarah Kane’s play prove too much for viewers, with 40 leaving early in first six shows Five people have fainted watching the graphic scenes of torture, rape and ...

One of the challenges of designing Cleansed is people’s preconceived idea of what the play is about. Cleansed is comprised of twenty short scenes and, famously, it has a series of almost impossible ...

The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School of Drama at ...

Sarah Kane’s “Cleansed” is a challenging production for all who partake in it. For the audience, the brutal violence and ubiquitous nudity can be disturbing. For the actors, representing characters ...