The part at 2:30 with the happy music and disturbing ideas was handled soo well. A dark kind of humor! I think you did a fantastic job. I've heard of this play before but the way you presented it made me go "ahhh ..wait WHAT" Great job, dude! Love the narration too.
I fucking love Sarah Kane!!! And Cleansed is one of my favourites. She had such a rhythm to her writing that I would often just focus on that when it got too brutal. I've never been able to see her plays live though, let alone have the opportunity to stage it!
This was interesting. Never heard of this play but your narration and interpretation of it was cool to hear. Interesting that you took on the challenge on directing such a visceral and graphic play as this
Thank you for giving it a watch! There's whole world of weird theatre that has barely been touched, so I definitely want to look into it from time to time from my experience
I don't think to say that I love Sarah Kane is the right way to put it. She has preoccupied me since I read any of her work, and I have the utmost respect to her and her memory.
The reason why Büchner’s Woyzeck appears to be lack temporality (thus making it appear strikingly modern for an 1837 play) is due to the fact that the sheets of paper on which it was written were found scattered on the floor in the author’s home after his death (his brother found them if I’m not mistaken). It’s not a suggestion that the scenes could be rearranged in any way, there is actually not a true order that we know of today. Anyways, great video man. I’ve been studying and rereading and playing and getting inspired by Sarah Kane for a few years now and she needs to be heard of more outside of the niche community of people that happen to stumble upon her. She truly was a genius, an exceptional playwright, a flame burning so hot that she couldn’t be but a spark. If anyone wants to get to know her better I recommend first reading all five of her plays (Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis), they aren’t that long and are usually published together in a single book, and the reading “Love Me or Kill Me” by Graham Saunders, a deep dive into her work with interviews with people that knew her and worked with her.
i personally love hearing your thoughts on theater! it's really an area i know almost nothing about and have spent a lot of time unfavorably comparing to film, which i've started to realize is a bit unfair.
Thank you for giving it a listen! It's definitely one of the more pretentious modes of entertainment but nonetheless something i got a lot of personal development from.
You're clearly in your element talking about theatre, and your perspective on the use of violent imagery really gave me something to think about. There's a lot to be said for the way audiences in any entertainment medium appear to seek something "sanitized," and I really appreciate Kane's desire to push for something more. Really dug this! I'd love to see more videos from you on theatre.
Thank you for this! I'll keep this in mind! While my interests obviously stem beyond theatre I think it'll be useful to utilise the experience I have to apply it to other videos
What a great video! :) You packed so much into 15 minutes. Wow I have never looked at theater footage and gone "ahhhhh" so many times before. I am fascinated - I want to look into this play!
When I read the play for the first time and saw that first scene with the overdose I was like "wtf am I reading???" But then I ended up directing it and from there just grew to love her work!
thank you for this. i've gone down a cleansed rabbit hole today because it's being staged in sydney and i'm fascinated with how they are going to stage it. this was an excellent primer.
Never heard of that author or play before. Thanks for introducing it. A serie on "weird theatre" would totally be a great thing as it is not a subjet done on youtube before. Now if you excuse me I'm gonna crawl in fetal position after having read that play.
Critics and theatre have not always been so intimately entwined, after all personal experience is what counts and (even though Sara Kane may have drawn so many scences from real life narratives) the theatrical act thows light on the real life experience, though let's hope it helps us direct our own experiences.
LOVED this video!! how would you feel about a film version of cleansed? not shot on location, but a recording of a theatrical production without the audience (sort of like what they did with hamilton). this way a version of the performed play is available (I live in New Zealand so productions of Kanes work are very hard to come by) without sacrificing Kanes challenges she poses through stage direction.
Well I know that movie magic makes some of the directions more accessible, but then as a result you don't see the 'reality' of those flowers growing or those hands being hacked off without some cut or effect happening. The thing that I love is seeing directors' interpretations of impossible stage directions! I know Kane was fairly literal when it came to those directions, not many were a metaphorical explosion or a slice of the neck. I think Kane is one of those people where they're hard to stage outside of theatre without losing a core component. It's like how many were disappointed by the anime of the horror manga artist Junji Ito, there was something lost from the jump to animation.
@@LiteWrites I like your perspective on this. it was definitely made for theatre and could not only lose the challenge aspect, but also the visceral nature of seeing it live that makes this play so captivating.
Y'all don't even wanna know what it was like to direct this play for myself...
The part at 2:30 with the happy music and disturbing ideas was handled soo well. A dark kind of humor! I think you did a fantastic job. I've heard of this play before but the way you presented it made me go "ahhh ..wait WHAT" Great job, dude! Love the narration too.
Thank you so much! I'm happy this seems to resonate so much with everyone despite not being in theatre. Guess I have my angle!
I fucking love Sarah Kane!!! And Cleansed is one of my favourites.
She had such a rhythm to her writing that I would often just focus on that when it got too brutal.
I've never been able to see her plays live though, let alone have the opportunity to stage it!
Mad respect to anyone who's ever managed to direct a Sarah Kanw play
This was interesting. Never heard of this play but your narration and interpretation of it was cool to hear. Interesting that you took on the challenge on directing such a visceral and graphic play as this
Thank you for giving it a watch! There's whole world of weird theatre that has barely been touched, so I definitely want to look into it from time to time from my experience
I don't think to say that I love Sarah Kane is the right way to put it. She has preoccupied me since I read any of her work, and I have the utmost respect to her and her memory.
The reason why Büchner’s Woyzeck appears to be lack temporality (thus making it appear strikingly modern for an 1837 play) is due to the fact that the sheets of paper on which it was written were found scattered on the floor in the author’s home after his death (his brother found them if I’m not mistaken).
It’s not a suggestion that the scenes could be rearranged in any way, there is actually not a true order that we know of today.
Anyways, great video man. I’ve been studying and rereading and playing and getting inspired by Sarah Kane for a few years now and she needs to be heard of more outside of the niche community of people that happen to stumble upon her.
She truly was a genius, an exceptional playwright, a flame burning so hot that she couldn’t be but a spark.
If anyone wants to get to know her better I recommend first reading all five of her plays (Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis), they aren’t that long and are usually published together in a single book, and the reading “Love Me or Kill Me” by Graham Saunders, a deep dive into her work with interviews with people that knew her and worked with her.
i personally love hearing your thoughts on theater! it's really an area i know almost nothing about and have spent a lot of time unfavorably comparing to film, which i've started to realize is a bit unfair.
Thank you for giving it a listen! It's definitely one of the more pretentious modes of entertainment but nonetheless something i got a lot of personal development from.
You're clearly in your element talking about theatre, and your perspective on the use of violent imagery really gave me something to think about. There's a lot to be said for the way audiences in any entertainment medium appear to seek something "sanitized," and I really appreciate Kane's desire to push for something more.
Really dug this! I'd love to see more videos from you on theatre.
Thank you for this! I'll keep this in mind! While my interests obviously stem beyond theatre I think it'll be useful to utilise the experience I have to apply it to other videos
What a great video! :) You packed so much into 15 minutes. Wow I have never looked at theater footage and gone "ahhhhh" so many times before. I am fascinated - I want to look into this play!
When I read the play for the first time and saw that first scene with the overdose I was like "wtf am I reading???" But then I ended up directing it and from there just grew to love her work!
thank you for this. i've gone down a cleansed rabbit hole today because it's being staged in sydney and i'm fascinated with how they are going to stage it. this was an excellent primer.
Never heard of that author or play before. Thanks for introducing it. A serie on "weird theatre" would totally be a great thing as it is not a subjet done on youtube before. Now if you excuse me I'm gonna crawl in fetal position after having read that play.
Critics and theatre have not always been so intimately entwined, after all personal experience is what counts and (even though Sara Kane may have drawn so many scences from real life narratives) the theatrical act thows light on the real life experience, though let's hope it helps us direct our own experiences.
I feel like I could stage everything in this play...guess I'm just built different 💯
I tried to stage it. It's hard. I did not enjoy directing a rape scene.
@@LiteWrites 🥺ahhh
LOVED this video!! how would you feel about a film version of cleansed? not shot on location, but a recording of a theatrical production without the audience (sort of like what they did with hamilton). this way a version of the performed play is available (I live in New Zealand so productions of Kanes work are very hard to come by) without sacrificing Kanes challenges she poses through stage direction.
Well I know that movie magic makes some of the directions more accessible, but then as a result you don't see the 'reality' of those flowers growing or those hands being hacked off without some cut or effect happening. The thing that I love is seeing directors' interpretations of impossible stage directions! I know Kane was fairly literal when it came to those directions, not many were a metaphorical explosion or a slice of the neck. I think Kane is one of those people where they're hard to stage outside of theatre without losing a core component. It's like how many were disappointed by the anime of the horror manga artist Junji Ito, there was something lost from the jump to animation.
@@LiteWrites I like your perspective on this. it was definitely made for theatre and could not only lose the challenge aspect, but also the visceral nature of seeing it live that makes this play so captivating.
I love Kane, but I think the mistake she made was using stage directions that would never be realised.
I also think she made a grave mistake in criticising art that wasn’t her own.
Because remember guys, the only way to get audiences to listen is to horrify them beyond compare most likely traumatizing them in the process!
Has anybody seen the film The Skin I Live In? I don't think I ever really understood empathy until I watched that.