4.48 Psychosis at Son Of Semele

4.48 Psychosis

Son Of Semele
3301 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles

Deeply layered, this stream-of-consciousness view into a psychotic mind is both mysterious and crystalline, and explores with raw authenticity the complexities of mental illness. Son of Semele Ensemble's production of this beautiful and haunting play is a powerful celebration of Kane's contribution to contemporary, boundary-pushing theater, and an exploration of an often-misunderstood subject.

Thru - Nov 3, 2019

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 213-351-3507

www.sonofsemele.org

4.48 Psychosis Reviews

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Showmag - Highly Recommended

"...When approaching Sarah Kane's difficult, disjointed musings on the journey of desolation in her brief life, it is important to take to heart director Matthew McCray's explanation of the company's process. In a sense, it is an effort to bring coherence to the voices, echoes, and reverberations this poet set down in an effort to explain herself. Of necessity, the addition of muses Melina Bielefelt, Taylor Hawthorne, Jinny Ryann, and Betsy Zajko, in representing her voices, brings order to the chaos; but it robs us of Kane's disordered mind and the reason she (may have) wanted to express it to herself."

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- Leigh Kennicott

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...Sarah Kane majored in Drama at Bristol University and wrote four other plays that have been frequently produced all over Europe, but 4.48 Psychosis is not really a play at all. Rather it's a rambling text without characters or stage directions. Kane's friend David Grieg has called it a mapping of "the psychotic mind," and it indeed reads like a woman's chronicling of her own mental illness even as it is taking her down. While it's a challenge for any director to stage this text - it has no beginning, middle or end, and no arc of development - it's also a huge opportunity to create a world in which these words belong."

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- Stephen Fife

4.48 Psychosis at Son Of Semele

4.48 Psychosis

4.48 Psychosis Reviews

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Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

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