"I'm writing a play called 4.48 Psychosis. It's about a psychotic breakdown, and what happens to the person's mind when the barriers which distinguish between reality and the forms of imagination completely disappear - so that you no longer know where you stop and the world starts. So, for example, if I was a psychotic, I would literally not know the difference between myself, this table and Dan. They would all be part of a continnum. And various boundaries begin to collapse. Formally, I’m trying to collapse a few boundaries as well. To carry on with making the form and content one. "
With these words Sara Kane explains her very last written expression: suicide.
A piece for the voice.
A piece with multiple voices:
That of a fragmented mind.
That of one who is in love of what is absent.
The soft psychiatric voice of reason.
Words dragging life to its very limits.
Artistic Team
Premiere
Mapa Teatro - Laboratorio de Artistas
March, 2003
Bogota, Colombia
Touring
2003
4.48 Psychosis 2003