In a former university, society's "undesirables" are subjected to a series of tortures designed to test the limits of human love on the battlefield of the human body. Explosively aching, hauntingly ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Written by the most notorious playwright of the late 20th century, CLEANSED is perhaps ...

The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School of Drama at ...

The Catastrophic Theatre canceled its production of Sarah Kane’s play “Cleansed,” which was scheduled to open this Friday after the death of cast member Zachariah Mustafa. Mustafa, who died March 19, ...

Raymond Compton as Woman, up high and inches away from the overhead lights. Credit: Photo by Sarah Moessner Their head just inches away from the overhead lights, Raymond Compton as Woman sits in ...

Set in a university that has been converted into a concentration camp and place of torture (surely an ironic joke about our higher education system), the play has four storylines. In the first, Grace, ...

One of the challenges of designing Cleansed is people’s preconceived idea of what the play is about. Cleansed is comprised of twenty short scenes and, famously, it has a series of almost impossible ...

Who exactly is purified, absolved, or made clean in Sarah Kane’s brutal, sexually audacious Cleansed (1998)? Grace receives a phalloplasty and a mastectomy; psychologically abused Robin hangs himself; ...