THEATRE + COMEDY

The Catastrophic Theatre presents Crave by Sarah Kane, running Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm, May 20 through June 4.

Crave is a tour-de-force tone poem for four voices. The play is non-linear, fragmented and fractured; it bounces through time like the thoughts and feelings of a confused, conflicted and desperate mind. It meditates obsessively on themes of the inescapability of trauma, love and its inadequacy to wholly redeem, hope and hopelessness, despair and craving. The play is written in a musical, poetic style, much like Catastrophic’s production of Mickle Maher’s Spirits to Enforce. There is no story, no message and only elusive wisps of narrative. It is experiential in nature and is driven by the rapid-fire associations of a troubled mind.

Catastrophic artistic director Jason Nodler will direct an ensemble of Carolyn Houston Boone, Matt Carter, Greg Dean and Mikelle Johnson.

About the Playwright "To create something beautiful about despair, or out of a feeling of despair, is for me the most hopeful, life-affirming thing a person can do." - Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane is widely recognized as one of the most radical and influential writers of the last twenty years. She was at the front of what was once described as Britain’s In-Yer-Face theatre movement and her work has been described alternately as a “Theatre of Extremes” and an “Ethics of Catastrophe.” She wrote five plays (Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave and 4.48 Psychosis) and one short film (Skin) before committing suicide in 1999 at the age of 28.

This play is for mature audiences.