How can I return to form now my formal thought has gone? A multimedia workshop of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis

The event will workshop Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis and Philip Venables’s 2016 operatic adaption to address the difficult dramaturgical questions the text poses. It will focus on how the play responds to different modes of performance and the implications for an audience.

The workshop will centre around the question of form; both in the structure of the play and in the play’s thematic preoccupation with the disconnect between mind and body (“it is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind”). One way in which we will address this state of dissociation will be through movement and choreography, and also by working with Venables’s multimedia aria Clare’s Song.