4:48 am is the time of mental clarity which brings the decision to take one’s own life. Sarah Kane’s last play follows a patient through the hell of his deepest and most dangerous crisis, explores his interior world and the reactions of those around him.
“A consolidated consciousness resides in a darkened banqueting hall near the ceiling of a mind whose floor shifts as ten thousand cockroaches when a shaft of light enters as all thoughts unite in an instant of accord body no longer expellent as the cockroaches comprise a truth which no one ever utters.”
“dread the loss of her I’ve never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet.”
“You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be ok.“
German translation by Durs Grünbein
Coproduction with Schauspielhaus Zurich
Direction // Falk Richter
Stage and costume design // Katrin Hoffmann
Music // Malte Beckenbach
Video // Martin Rottenkolber
Dramaturgy // Maja Zade
Lighting design // Carsten Sander
Cast // Jule Böwe, Bibiana Beglau, Sylvana Krappatsch, Kay Bartholomäus Schulze