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Sarah Kane's theatre addressed a number of issues, such as sex, love,
depression, loneliness and murder. So, it was strange for society to

discuss these issues with such boldness and cruelty at the same time. In
addition to writing her creative works, she directed some of them and also
played roles in some shows as an alternative to an actress.
Ken's characters are moody, depressed all the time and always dying,
much like Dostoevsky.) Death is present in its theatre as an event and a
general ritual, a character present with a presence, or we can see him as a
key hero in action. Her theatre contains scenes of sex, murder and torture,
all of which are difficult to accept or present on stage, challenging her
directors.
In this play, Ken escapes from the world, in a hotel room, in two people:
«Ian» a journalist in his 40s, and suffers from the diseases of the whole
world, so we find a person with suicidal tendencies, does not stop
smoking, and his companion "Cate" at the beginning of her second
decade. A man and a woman, ken represents them for many human
transformations that take years to shorten in two days. The model of a
racist 40-year-old man who sees a woman as a tool in his hand or just a
sexual amusement, although he admits to love her, is presented. She
introduces the model of a vulnerable woman who is well aware of the
extent of the harm a man inflicts on her, and even admits to him openly,
but is associated with a son's association with his mother.
The author discusses the issue of war and its usefulness. We see its effect
on the soldier. Turning it into a machine that only thinks about killing and
having sex.
Sharp mood swings throughout the play, between strength, weakness,
love and hatred. Ian, who claims strength and fear less than death, doesn't
have the same catch when Cate tries to kill him, and she treats the world
like a friendly cat, turning into a corpse without feelings in the end.
Beginning with the second scene, the events are darker and darker. There
is suspicion outside, and we don't know what's going on, it's like end of
the world. Another issue discussed by the writer in the play is "War" and
its usefulness. There is a soldier who appears, and we see the impact of
the war on him. He has completely lost his mind and turned into a
machine that only thinks about murder and sex.
In the play, all the characters are disguised as a false cover of power,
while they are weak and fragile. Even a soldier who met many horrors,
became fragile and weak. Only the "woman" remains strong, while all of
them are dead around her, and she takes care of them. This is the only
time a woman has appeared so strongly at the Sarah Kane Theater.
War
Directly or indirectly, war is the main theme in Sarah's Kane play. Ian is
tabloid journalist, most of his reports just on sexual crimes and
kidnapping with concentrating on the local issues. When the soldier came
and questions him to write about him and the war he refused to write and
said that this a job of foreign correspondents. The war starts to come in
the hotel room, and its influences, which Ian ignored it until now.
The soldier who is represent the onerousness and horribleness of the war,
he come in the hotel room with a pistol in his hand and he is ready for
violence on any one he meets. He was desensitized his sense to the
violence by his servicing in the army, that's why he treated Ian in
brutalizes manner and hurts him. Sarah Kane inspired to wrote her play
was from the Bosnian civil war and she wanted to show reflection and
horror of war through the theatre. She portrays how the war can damage
the human mind and corrupting them. And also, inside the hotel there is a
war happens between Ian and Cate, where Ian was trying to obliged Cate
to sleep with him and make a sex.
Sexual violence
Sexual abuse happened between Ian and Cate. When Ian coerces her to
stay with him despite her refuse, he forces himself upon her and pressing
his body on her unawareness body. He obliged her to sleep with him and
practice sex with him. Another abuse happened when the soldier enters
the hotel room, he wanted to abuse and rape any women in the room but
when he did not find any women and he find pair of knickers, he obliged
Ian to wear it and then he put the pistol on Ian's head and rapes him and
eats his eyes. Sarah Kane merged war with sex and considered it as
violence coercion
Survival
When the play started, Ian and Cate entre the hotel room and Ian was
carrying pistol with him. The weapon refers that there is something
dangerous happen either between Ian and Cate or outside the room. The
menace of violence is very clear in the play, start to enter through the
door of the hotel room and become inside the room. Ian confirms that he
is a violent man and coercive when he was obliging Cate to practice sex
with him. When the soldier enters the hotel, he rapes Ian and eats his eyes
and then the soldier kill himself and leaves Ian blind in the bombed hotel,
Ian should take decision either he remains alive or he kill himself. Cate
was alone trying to find a way to be a live-in city which torn by the war
and surrounded by violent soldiers. She was attempting to care of baby
but the baby died. The last image when Cate was feeding Ian and Ian
thanking her, this gives a picture that those two people who confront this
horribleness and this violence but they still choosing to be alive.

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Sarah Kane's theatre addressed a number of issues, such as sex, love,

depression, loneliness and murder. So, it was strange for society to

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