Excerpt from the play.
B Fear rumbles over the city sky.
M Absence sleeps between the buildings at night.
C Between the cars in the lay-by,
B Between the day and the night.
A I have to be where I'm meant to be.
B Let
C Me
M Go
A The outside world is vastly overrated.
A pause
C Let the day perish in which I was born
Let the blackness of the night terrify it
Let the stars of its dawn be dark
May it not see the eyelids of the morning
Because it did not shut the door of my mother's womb
B The thing that I fear comes upon me.
C I hate you,
B I need you,
M Need more,
C Need change.
A All the totally predictable and sickening futility that is our relationship.
M I want a real life,
B A real love,
A One that is real and grows upwards in daylight.
C What's she got that I haven't got?
A Me.
B The things I want, I want with you.
M It's just. Not. Me.
A There are no secrets.
M There is only blindness.
A You've fallen in love with someone that doesn't exist.
C No.
M Yes.
B No.
A Yes.
C No.
B No.
M Yes.
C I knew this,
B I knew this,
C Why can't I learn?
A I won't settle for a life in the dark.
B Don't look at the sun, don't look at the sun.
C I love you.
M Too late.
A It's over.
Sarah Kane, Complete Plays (London:Methuen, 2001) pp.189-190.
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Ahh, I love this! I've been posting Sarah Kane as well, but I haven't been so responsible with correct citations - just kind of put her name on the first post and then keep using the same title. I may well be the only person who keeps Sarah Kane and Sylvia Plath on her bedside table! Sometimes she can speak for me better than I can (that goes for both of them.)
Haha, well currently on my bedside table are Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich, so I'm not much better! I only cite things properly because I'm paranoid about copyright infringement, hehe. I was in a performance of 'Crave' a couple of years ago. It was actually quite traumatic/cathartic to be involved with.
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