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The Unspeakable Sarah Kane

Art of Darkness

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Sabewer's Cleansed

Kane said she started writing cleansed before blasted was even staged. Took her three years to finish the play. Mark ravenhill, who's a famous playwright, said kane told him she wrote cleansed when she was in love. Kane sent a draft of the play to edward bond, who is a heavy duty playwright. She claimed she had written cleansed as a play that would only work as a piece of theatre and could not be adapted to other dramatic mediums. Quoting: i made the deliberate decision to write something that couldn't be film or television. Some people argue that it can't be theatre either, but i want to stretch the theatrical language.

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