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Set in an unidentifiable city from which voices and images spring, Crave is a dramatized deconstruction of the human mind under the pressures of love, loss, and longing. Four nameless characters tell their tales of disintegration and isolation. “Their dialogues meet, converge and move apart with balletic grace, with caustically humorous as well as distressing consequences” (Time Out). A stunningly poetic and visceral theater experience, Crave’s powerful — and often times shocking — language forges an immediate, intense bond between audience and performer. British playwright Sarah Kane was hailed as a potential heir to such existential playwrights as Samuel Beckett and Edward Bond prior to her untimely death at the age of 28. WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING
“Crave's impact and mysteries linger in the mind. The four-member cast — Kathleen Coons, Deborah Hazelett, Joe Isenberg, and John Lescault — is impassioned, by turns furious, resigned, and wryly humorous.” — Susan Berlin, Talkin' Broadway “Crave combines wordplay, searing questions, and fragmented discourse. Kane uses her combination of poetic language, repetition, cliché, and quotes from writers such as William Shakespeare and T. S. Eliot to create a disarming trance that oscillates between lyric lullaby and screaming nightmare. Signature Theatre of Arlington, Virginia, under the direction of Jeremy Skidmore has mounted a viscerally connected production.” — Karren L. Alenier, Culture Vulture “Crave is an edgy piece of long form poetry. The acting ensemble delivers Kane’s poem with a jarring stop-start cadence that combined with excellent visual and sound design provide a unique theatrical experience that must be ultimately credited to Mr. Skidmore for his insightful piece of directing and Tony Cisek, Dan Covey and Mark Anduss for the technical designs.” — Ronnie Ruff, DC Theatre Reviews
MEET THE DIRETOR Jeremy Skidmore makes his Signature directing debut taking the helm of Sarah Kane’s Crave, a strikingly poetic fantasia of love, lust, pain, humor, sadness, and strangely enough, hope. The work is difficult and presents a challenge for its director. The production takes place in the midst of a giant sand box in the middle of Signature’s 120-seat ARK Theatre. The life and death of Crave’s playwright are already steeped in legend. Sarah Kane’s career was brought to a premature end in 1999 at the age of 28, when she committed suicide by hanging herself in a bathroom at a mental hospital in London. Acknowledged as a major figure in British theater, her work has been highly influential and widely performed in Europe. Her impact is all the more remarkable, given that her entire published output consists of only five plays and a short screenplay. Characterized by poetic intensity, pared-down language, and a bold exploration of theatrical form, her scripts offer few insights into staging. The seemingly disconnected dialogue in Crave is spoken by four characters, each identified only by a letter of the alphabet. Skidmore is up to the challenge of Crave. As Artistic Director of Theatre Alliance, his productions of Gross Indecency and Mary’s Wedding received Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production. Jeremy has also directed for African Continuum Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Catalyst Theater Company, and outside the DC area in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Macau and Tai Pei. Join the talented Jeremy Skidmore for an insightful conversation. Bring your lunch and questions concerning Sarah Kane’s Crave and his approach to the production. MORE INFORMATION Show appropriate for mature audiences only.
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