Cleansed / Crave / 4.48 Psychosis

He places the amputations and excesses of ‘Cleansed’ in the snip snip Shockheaded Peter costumes of an infantile therapy group, whose innocent cruelty shakes our view of humanity more fundamentally than the 90s dystopia of terror clinics and rats in gutters. He conducts the quartet of memorized fragments of lost identities ‘Crave’ into a stupendous concert of language, which reveals Kane to be a subtle creator of situation comedy. And he ennobles the suicidal fevered dream ‘4.48 Psychosis’ into an elegiac solo symphony with chamber sextet, where the lyrical ego – personified by the brilliant actors Thomas Schmauser and Sandra Hüller – recapitulates works and fears utterly without sentiment until all viable distinction between patient and therapist fall apart. Victims, perpetrators, spectators – Kane’s trio seduces the audience entirely afresh in Johan Simons’ trilogy. He frees the writer from her suffering – retrospectively.

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