Crave

“I don’t have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words”

(A., Crave – Sarah Kane)

Crave is powerful and provocative text by British playwright Sarah Kane, first performed in 1998.
The text is composed by four interwoven voices, which alternates fragmented musical interlude with a “jazz” rhythm to more extended pieces in the form of stream of consciousness: a concentration of continuous details that overlap with broken rhythm.
Sarah Kane creates vivid, clear, chiseled images and uses them to sink into steep cracks, ripping out dark inner shadows with violence and irony.
Crave embraces a poetic and fragmented style that delves deep into the complexities of human emotion. The narrative follows a continuous emotional pulsation: the interwoven relationships between voices make words extremely necessary and these words come out as splinters of a visceral thought.
Through themes of love, loss, trauma, and longing, Crave explores the fragility of the human psyche, blurring the boundaries between pain and desire.
Considering the four voices as a subdivision of personality, in scene there would be only one actress (Leda Kreider) to perform the different voices of the text.