How Sarah Kane’s dark genius prophesied our troubled world
Twenty-two years after her death, aged just 28, the British playwright’s work is still as piercing and frightening – and relevant – as ever
Sarah Kane's Crave at Chichester Festival Theatre last year
Credit: Alastair Muir
Which playwright can best describe the Covid-blighted world we’re now in? Can help us face a future that looks certain to be shaped by the pandemic, with geopolitical tensions and the threat of conflict an ongoing given as well? The answer could well be someone who died young 22 years ago: Sarah Kane. Her remarkable legacy is worth reflecting on again as we approach what would have been her 50th birthday on February 3.