When Sarah Kane’s first play, Blasted, debuted at London’s Royal Court theatre in January 1995, critics fell over each to hurl invective, labelling it with adjectives like ‘disturbing’, ‘degrading’ and ‘depressing’. Some audience members walked out, which was a ‘strong statement’ in a theatre so small, according to critic Aleks Sierz; such was the divisive nature of Kane’s ‘in-yer-face mode’ of theatre, a provocative and … Continue reading Sarah Kane’s Cleansed: the shock of the new | Sarah England