Sarah Kane s Anti Oedipal Theatre — Onur Ekler

Postdramatic Theatre by its very nature is anti Oedipal It resists the restrictive codes of the existing theatrical tradition concerning stage and audience in oedipal axis it aims to cleanse theatre from the unhealthy poisonous inscription on the theatrical body so that theatre can be inclusive rather than exclusive welcoming new experimental dramatic forms Although many playwrights starting with Beckett Artaud Osborne may perhaps fall in this category who could have thought Sarah Kane labelled as an underrated naïve young dramatist could be by far its most extreme representative Despite her young age she systematically and strategically de territorializes the stage and society deeply sicked by the ossified principles of the oedipal institutions from her earliest play Blasted to the last one 4 48 Psychosis Kane like a clinician diagnoses the problems which neuroticize the English stage Blasting the blockage which prevents the free flow of desiring production in both stage and social body Kane celebrates an anti oedipal psychotic stage in her plays Offering an alternative reading of Sarah Kane s plays from Deleuze and Guattari s anti oedipal perspective this book invites readers to re interpret the role of Kane and her drama

Postdramatic Theatre by its very nature is anti Oedipal It resists the restrictive codes of the existing theatrical tradition concerning stage and audience in oedipal axis it aims to cleanse theatre from the unhealthy poisonous inscription on the theatrical body so that theatre can be inclusive rather than exclusive welcoming new experimental dramatic forms Although many playwrights starting with Beckett Artaud Osborne may perhaps fall in this category who could have thought Sarah Kane labelled as an underrated naïve young dramatist could be by far its most extreme representative Despite her young age she systematically and strategically de territorializes the stage and society deeply sicked by the ossified principles of the oedipal institutions from her earliest play Blasted to the last one 4 48 Psychosis Kane like a clinician diagnoses the problems which neuroticize the English stage Blasting the blockage which prevents the free flow of desiring production in both stage and social body Kane celebrates an anti oedipal psychotic stage in her plays Offering an alternative reading of Sarah Kane s plays from Deleuze and Guattari s anti oedipal perspective this book invites readers to re interpret the role of Kane and her drama

Postdramatic Theatre by its very nature is anti Oedipal It resists the restrictive codes of the existing theatrical tradition concerning stage and audience in oedipal axis it aims to cleanse theatre from the unhealthy poisonous inscription on the theatrical body so that theatre can be inclusive rather than exclusive welcoming new experimental dramatic forms Although many playwrights starting with Beckett Artaud Osborne may perhaps fall in this category who could have thought Sarah Kane labelled as an underrated naïve young dramatist could be by far its most extreme representative Despite her young age she systematically and strategically de territorializes the stage and society deeply sicked by the ossified principles of the oedipal institutions from her earliest play Blasted to the last one 4 48 Psychosis Kane like a clinician diagnoses the problems which neuroticize the English stage Blasting the blockage which prevents the free flow of desiring production in both stage and social body Kane celebrates an anti oedipal psychotic stage in her plays Offering an alternative reading of Sarah Kane s plays from Deleuze and Guattari s anti oedipal perspective this book invites readers to re interpret the role of Kane and her drama

Postdramatic Theatre by its very nature is anti Oedipal It resists the restrictive codes of the existing theatrical tradition concerning stage and audience in oedipal axis it aims to cleanse theatre from the unhealthy poisonous inscription on the theatrical body so that theatre can be inclusive rather than exclusive welcoming new experimental dramatic forms Although many playwrights starting with Beckett Artaud Osborne may perhaps fall in this category who could have thought Sarah Kane labelled as an underrated naïve young dramatist could be by far its most extreme representative Despite her young age she systematically and strategically de territorializes the stage and society deeply sicked by the ossified principles of the oedipal institutions from her earliest play Blasted to the last one 4 48 Psychosis Kane like a clinician diagnoses the problems which neuroticize the English stage Blasting the blockage which prevents the free flow of desiring production in both stage and social body Kane celebrates an anti oedipal psychotic stage in her plays Offering an alternative reading of Sarah Kane s plays from Deleuze and Guattari s anti oedipal perspective this book invites readers to re interpret the role of Kane and her drama