Arts: Back with a vengeance

The Independent - London | May 23, 1996| | Copyright

Fifty-five minutes into Sarah Kane's new play at the Gate and there's been nothing to write home about bar a single bout of masturbation and two cases of graphic fellatio. Oh, yes, and one brilliant idea. In the plays by Seneca and Euripides, which dramatise Phaedra's incestuous passion for her stepson, the obdurate rock against which the heroine fatally dashes herself is Hippolytus's militant chastity. In Kane's version, too, he spurns love, but this denial expresses itself here not in celibacy but in indiscriminate indulgence.

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