Crave April 26, 2007

By Sarah Kane
Directed by Jennifer Tarver

April 26 to May 19, 2007
At The Young Centre for the Performing Arts
In the Distillery Historic District

“Long before I had the chance to adore all of you, I adored the bits of you I could see.”
from Crave

Our international fare this season comes from one of Britain’s most celebrated female playwrights of the last century! Sarah Kane’s (1971-1999) plays are now the most frequently staged in Europe; at one point in 2003, there were 17 simultaneous productions of her plays in Germany alone.
Nightwood is proud to bring the professional premiere of Sarah Kane’s Crave to Toronto.
Crave presents four characters, or perhaps four aspects of human nature, set in an unnamed city. Two men and two women, each only having a letter for a name, are linked through various relationships. The ferocity of craving someone, or something, is palpable. Kane paints four portraits of the turbulence of the human heart as these four individuals navigate through love, loss and desire.

“Crave is a poetic, musical quartet for four voices, of great formal beauty, with echoes of the Bible, Common Prayer and T.S. Eliot.” The Daily Telegraph.

“[Crave] is, in effect, a woman’s post-mortem on a self-destructive as, sadly, Kane turned out to be and there’s nothing else like it in the language.” The Times

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