Sarah Kane, 3 February 1971-20 February 1999, is a British playwright, writer and theatre director. She is well known for the creation of dramas that address the theme of love, sexual desire, pain, torture, both physical and psychological, and death. Her work was characterized by the intensity of poetry, fine language, exploration of theatre forms, and in her earlier work extreme and violent stage moves were used.
Kane himself, as well as the scholars who have studied her work, such as Graham Sanders, believe that her inspirations include manifestations of the drama and the tragedy of the Jacobic period. Commentator Alex Shertz saw her work as part of a dramatic style and sense called "face-to-face confrontal drama". Shertz initially called Kane "the most typical face-to-face confrontal writer of the 1990s", but later in 2009 he said that although he initially "considered that she was very typical of new writings in the mid-1990s", "over time, we find her increasingly atypical."
Cain has published five plays, a short film Skin and two newspaper articles for The Guardian.
4.48 Mental Fault is the last dramatic work of the British playwright Sarah Kane. This is her legacy. The Wood Theatre was inaugurated for the first time, under the direction of James McDonough, almost a year and a half after Kane ' s death on 20 February 1999. The theatre does not have a clear role or stage direction. As a result, the stage of the play has changed considerably, with one or more actors performing; there are three actors in the original. According to Kane ' s friend and playwright colleague David Gregg, the title originated at 4:48 a.m., when she often woke up when he was depressed.