‘Love me or kill me’

Graham Saunders is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of the West of England

• Introduction1. 'This disgusting feast of filth': Blasted2. 'If there could have been more moments like these': Phaedra's Love3. 'This sensible hell': Cleansed4. 'Only love can save me and love has destroyed me': Crave5. 'Remember the light and believe in the light': 4.48 Psychosis6. Converstation with James Macdonald7. Conversation with Vicky Featherstone8. Converstation with Nils Tabert9. Conversation with Mel Kenyon10. Conversation with Phyllis Nagy11. Conversation with Kate Ashfield12. Conversation with Daniel Evans13. Conversation with Stuart McQuarrie14. Edward Bond: Sarah Kane and theatreSelect BibliographyIndex

'This is a pioneering book that will have a marked influence of all subsequent Sarah Kane studies. Graham Saunders has spoken to directors, actors and others who worked with her and knew her intimately. You can hear the rustle of draft scripts, feet in rehearsal rooms, the coffee cups of students discussing late into the night. It is astonishing to read such intimate accounts of a woman who became a public icon in her short life... This is not a sycophantic book, its judgements are balanced - and that makes us realise all the more what we have lost. It was one little death, but theatre will need a crowd of brilliant writers to take her place - if even then.' Edward Bond