Discover everything Scribd has to offer, including books and audiobooks from major publishers.Browse Books Site Directory Site Language: English Change Language English Change Language Quick navigation Home Books Audiobooks Documents, active Collapse section Rate Useful 88 88 found this document useful, Mark this document as useful Not useful 13 13 found this document not useful, Mark this document as not useful Collapse section Share Share on Facebook, opens a new window Facebook Share on Twitter, opens a new window Twitter Share on LinkedIn, opens a new window LinkedIn Copy Link to clipboard Copy Link Share with Email, opens mail client Email.Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture both physical and psychological and death.
![]() The critic Aleks Sierz has seen her work as part of what he has termed In-Yer-Face theatre, a form of drama which broke away from the conventions of naturalist theatre. Kanes published work consists of five plays, one short film, Skin, and two newspaper articles for The Guardian. After attending Shenfield High School, she studied drama at Bristol University, graduating in 1992, and went on to take an MA course in playwriting at the University of Birmingham, led by the playwright David Edgar. However, she wrote consistently, if slowly, throughout her adult life. For a year she was writer-in-residence for Paines Plough, a theatre company promoting new writing, where she actively encouraged other writers. Before that, she had worked briefly as literary associate for the Bush Theatre, London. Kane died in 1999, when, two days after taking an overdose of prescription drugs, she committed suicide by hanging herself by her shoelaces in a bathroom at Londons Kings College Hospital. ![]() In 2005, the theatre director Dominic Dromgoole wrote that she was without doubt the most performed new writer on the international circuit.23 Fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill has said her plays have almost certainly achieved canonical status.24 At one point in Germany, there were 17 simultaneous productions of her work. ![]()
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