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Blasted

SARAH KANE

| English Theatre |

INTRODUCTION

I am going to talk about “Blasted”, a play written by Sarah Kane, and produced on 12 January 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London. PLOT Ian and Cate are in a room of a luxury hotel, they have meet because Cate thinks Ian is unhappy, but indeed Ian takes advantage of her point of view and has sex with her, although she does not want to. They talk about their lives, Cate’s family and work life, and Ian’s health. Next morning, while Cate is performing oral sex on Ian, he talks about his work and that he stopped talking to her when they were a couple because know he works killing people, Cate bites his cock and disagrees with what he does for a living. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door and is a soldier with a sniper’s riffler, he asks Ian about his job, his passport and the girl, but Cate has gone through the window of the bathroom. The city is being bombed, Ian and the soldier talk about their lives and sex. The soldier admits having killed, raped and more unimaginable things because of her girlfriend who was killed. The soldier rapes Ian and bites his eyes, letting him blind. Next scene, Cate appears from the bathroom holding a baby, who finally dies because of starvation. While Cate goes to find food for her and for Ian, Ian masturbates, lies on the soldier dead body and eats the baby’s body and returns bleeding from her legs, which could meant that the food she brings was payed with sex.

STAGE PROPS

The stage design is set in an expensive hotel room in Leeds, the room has a double bed, a mini bar with champagne, a telephone, a bouquet and a bathroom. This room is deteriorated as the play goes on, due to the war. Regarding light, it comes and go to change scenes and then it goes during some scenes due to the consequences of the bombs. About the sound, it is described bombs and the sound of the rain. CRITICAL EVALUATION Having analysed the play, I consider that it is a great play, although there is a lack of information or of clarity. I think Kane has choose good topics, sexual abuse, illnesses, war, and wars’ atrocities. Firstly, as in The real thing as in Blackbird, sexual abuse is treated correctly but in this play it is not clearly if Cate wants or not, because in a moment she says she does not want to but then she performs oral sex and it is confusing. Then the illnesses are treated as a way of living life and not thinking, which I think is a good perspective of seeing life. Here, I would like to talk about Karma, in the first scene Ian mocks about people with disabilities and homosexual people, also raping a girl, but along the play we can see how he becomes the “victim” of everything he mocks about; he becomes blind, which is a disability, he is raped by the soldier who is a man; so, it could be said that everything he did wrong came back to him. Moreover, we can see how war affects society. A woman that gives her baby to Cate, dying from starvation, resorting to cannibalism to survive, being raped by soldiers. On the other hand, it can be read all the atrocities that

soldiers do; raping, killing, committing genocide and abusing sexually from children. Soldiers, due to their social position, believe they can do all of this. Having read what a normal soldier does, it can be imagine what military captains, colonels or lieutenants can do due to their high military positions. This play could be seen as a reflection of war and abuses, that most of us, as young people, have not live luckily. BIBLIOGRAPHY Kane, Sarah. Blasted & Phaedra’s Love. Methuen Drama, 1895.