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4: 48 Psychosis Summary

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WHAT EXTRACT EXACTLY After reading the chosen stimulus of Sarah Kane 's '4:48 Psychosis ', we began to explore and devise a performance in the style of our theatre practitioner Antonin Artaud and his 'Theatre of Cruelty '. This particular style of theatre seeks to unleash a pain, suffering and symbolism rather than language to an audience. Kane 's artistic intention was to awake the spectator 's mind and soul. Likewise, Artaud believed "that in our modern world, the body has lost its importance and that theatre is the only way to awake it again". Our main aim is to highlight from a patient 's perspective, how doctors are unable to understand and sympathise with mental illness due to lack of support from the NHS; thus conveying the
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