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4.48 Psychosis
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4.48 Psychosis is a 1999 play by British playwright Sarah Kane. It was her last work, first staged at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on June 23, 2000, nearly one and a half years after Kane's February 20, 1999 death. The play has no explicit characters or stage directions and at times on the page appears more similar to an E. E. Cummings poem than a performance piece. Therefore, stage productions of the play vary greatly, with one to several actors in performance.
The play is written from the point of view of someone with severe bipolar disorder, a disorder from which Kane herself suffered. A repeated motif in the play is "serial sevens": counting down from one hundred by sevens, a bedside test often used by psychiatrists to test for loss of concentration or memory. The title of the play refers to the exact time of night around which suffering people report feeling very clear and cold whilst - for those outside - they appear to be suffering the most intense psychosis.
The British band Tindersticks released a song called "4:48 Psychosis" on their album Waiting For The Moon. The song is based on the play and includes spoken extracts from the play.
- Daily Telegraph review of 4.48 Psychosis
- 4.48 Psychosis at the Literary Encyclopedia
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