4.48 Psychose (Sarah Kane)

A controversial figure in British theater, Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis is a swan song of a beauty as dangerous as it is fascinating. Behind the poetic flashes of a fragmentary and innovative text emerges the voice of a woman who wants to look death in the face to remain true to herself, without conforming to a dominant discourse that marginalizes anything that deviates from its norms. Bearing the mark of defiance, her rebellious words also reveal a sublime and heart-wrenching cry about romantic dependence and burning desire. Here, the unsettling Sophie Cadieux makes her way into the heart of the “warm darkness” of a torn inner landscape. She is directed by Florent Siaud, who takes on another landmark text of contemporary theater following Heiner Müller’s Quartett and Ivan Viripaev’s Illusions.