The Stranger, September 15th, 2005
Somewhere along the way, British playwright Sarah Kane decided that graphic onstage violence made far less disturbing material than the trauma, passion, and despair of our actual, everyday relationships. Crave is her penultimate work - before her suicide in 1999 at age 28 - and is less a play than a prose-poem about lust, longing, and repulsion, spoken in short bursts by four characters identified only by letters.
A few choice lines, in no particular order: "I hate the smell of my own family." "You look reasonably happy for someone who isn't." "There's something deeply unflattering about bein...
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