Join Professor Graham Saunders for a fascinating lecture exploring the main themes and dramatic features of Sarah Kane’s work and her ongoing influence on many of today’s dramatists.
In 1998, Kane was included in the Evening Standard’s list of ‘London’s Top 100 women’, which was a list of “The most influential women in the capital”. In the same year, she was also featured in the newspaper’s list of “London’s fifty brightest young things”. Sarah Kane’s work is part of the ‘In Yer Face’ style of theatre and will often shock audiences. Kane studied drama at Bristol University and then went on to study an MA at the University of Birmingham, led by the playwright David Edgar. Kane wrote consistently throughout her adult life. For a year she was writer-in-residence for Paines Plough, a theatre company promoting new writing, where she actively encouraged other writers. Before that, she had worked briefly as literary associate for the Bush Theatre, London.
Graham Saunders is the Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the Department of Theatre and Drama Arts at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Love me or Kill me: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes, About Kane: the Playwright and the Work, Patrick Marber’s Closer and British Theatre Companies 1980-1994. He is co-editor of Cool Britannia: Political Theatre in the 1990s, Sarah Kane in Context and Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions. His latest monograph, Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: ‘Upstart Crows’ was published in 2017. He is a co-series editor for Routledge’s Modern and Contemporary Dramatists – Stage and Screen and Palgrave’s Cultural Studies in Censorship.
Details
When: Monday 7 February, 5.00pm
Where: Quarry Theatre
Tickets: Free (ticketed) visit quarrytheatre.org.uk to book
Running time: 60 minutes
Age suitability: 16yrs+ (some of the sensitive and mature themes)