Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Sarah Kane

I can’t afford a tutor to help my daughter get into grammar school. Will she still fulfil her potential?

You may be projecting your own school experience on to your daughter, but her needs are different and she has you to support her

The Guardian - UK

Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

The Guardian - UK

4.48 Psychosis review – bared anguish and delicate detail in Sarah Kane’s final play

Kane’s emotionally unswerving gifts as a writer are on full display in a 25th-anniversary production reuniting the original cast

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

4.48 Psychosis at the Royal Court Theatre review: a hard, harsh watch illuminated by flashes of poetic clarity

3/5 Sarah Kane’s final work condenses her vision into something untouchable and implacable

Evening Standard

James Graham unveils AI comedy at ‘greatest hits’ gala for Paines Plough

Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers

The Guardian - UK

‘We were booed. I felt proud’: Daniel Evans on his rollercoaster journey to RSC supremo

The joint RSC boss is on unstoppable form, making a blistering return to the stage with a 4:48 Psychosis performed in the small hours – and an Edward II that will be a ‘screw you’ to his school bullies

The Guardian - UK

Drama about hunt for Raoul Moat part of Royal Court’s new season

Other plays to feature include a production of Sarah Kane’s final work and a saga involving a British Museum artefact

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough

From locking playwrights up until a drama emerged to dreaming up Sarah Kane’s Crave in a pub; the talent behind half a century of innovation reveal their secrets

The Guardian - UK

‘She plumbed our secret, shameful depths’: why are Sarah Kane’s plays still so shocking?

The writer, who took her life 25 years ago this month, wrote five searing dramas that took in everything from despair to love, from mutilation to cannibalism. What was it like to direct or star in them?

The Guardian - UK

‘We sing the word faggot lovingly, hundreds of times’: inside Manchester’s queerest show

Composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman’s previous shows have caused panic attacks. How will The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions go down? Ahead of its premiere, the duo talk f-words, love-ins and the capitalist patriarchy

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Rebecca Watson: ‘I can leave a show or book unmoved, but with football I always feel’

As the adaptation of her novel, little scratch, returns to the London stage, the author and Nottingham Forest fan traces the links between theatre, fiction and the beautiful game

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m not really a freedom fighter’: actor David Jonsson on Tinseltown and making it on home turf

David Jonsson is being courted by Hollywood. But the star of Industry and Rye Lane prefers roles that reflect Black British life. He talks to Michael Segalov

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

Suicide is an act so shocking and violent that it undoes not only sensation, memory and feeling, but meaning. Poet and novelist Ocean Vuong describes how it unpicks even the connective tissue of language.

The Conversation

An explosive act of violence: why Britten’s Rape of Lucretia speaks to our brutal times

Britten’s opera is a strange, unsettling and unbearably private piece. Set in ancient Rome and written over 70 years ago, its theme is still all too contemporary, writes the director of a new production

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

This extreme play makes people faint. How do the actors stay sane, night after night?

Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is notorious for showing torture, assault and gore – but a new Sydney production is handling it with extra care. The director and actors share how they’ve got through harrowing rehearsals

Daily Record

Thursday's headlines: Loch Ness monster sighting and council leader branded 'Sturgeon puppet'

Here are the main headlines from the Daily Record website today.

Daily Record

Rangers fan who allegedly slashed Celtic-fan sister after Old Firm game walks free from court

Sarah Kane said she couldn't remember much about the incident with Darren Holland because she was so 'intoxicated'.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.